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A Miecyzlsaw Wasilewski retrospective in Tehran
Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum, Tehran
December 20, 2006 - January 15, 2007

A Miecyzlsaw Wasilewski retrospective in Tehran is shown 20th of December in Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum in Tehran. His presence is because of the Award Ceremony of World Award of Monotheistic Religions, poster competition.

Miecyzlsaw Wasilewski, Illustrator, poster designer, lecturer, born 1942 in Warsaw. Graduated in 1966 from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (Class of Professor Henryk Tomaszewski). Since 1971, head of the Graphic Design Department of Warsaw Academy and Professor of Academy since 1985.

Since 1971 he has been lecturing at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, later also at the European Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Between 1981-82 he lectured in the Fine Arts department of the Damascene University, and in 1989 in the College of Applied Arts in Offenbach and Frankfurt in Germany.
Between 1991-92 he has a lecturer at the Institute of applied Arts in Rovaniemi, Finland and a guest lecturer at artistic schools in Arnheim, Holland, Groningen and Helsinki.

His posters have won numerous awards and mentions including 4th International Poster Biennale, Warsaw 1972, Gold Medal of 6th International Poster Biennale, Warsaw 1976, Poster of the Year 1987, Silver Medal of Polish Poster Biennale, Katowice 1989, Special Jury Award of Festival de l'affiche, Chaumont, France 1991, Siver Medal of 14th International Poster Biennale, Warsaw 1994 and Siver Medal at the 1995 International Triennial of theatre’s Poster in Sofia.

His posters are in permanent collections of Poster Museum at Wilanow, National Museum in Poznan, Musee de l’affiche in Paris, West Chester University in Pennsylvania, Lahden Taidemuseo in Finland, Toyoma Poster Museum in Japan, and private galleries in Poland and abroad. His individual poster exhibition are shown in Poland, Germany, Finland, Spain and Iran.

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