Image: Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb
Created through a collaboration between Zagreb’s Museum of Arts and Crafts and Split’s Art Gallery, the exhibition was authored and curated by Lovorka Magaš Bilandžić. It surveys authored printed posters alongside unique hand-painted examples made during the interwar period, when Salon Galić served as a place for exhibiting and selling art and for artists to meet.
The collection is described as Croatia’s largest preserved corpus of designs made to advertise the exhibition activity of a museum or gallery institution between the two world wars. It also documents founder and owner Ivan Galić’s progressive approach to graphic design and its presentation.
The exhibition was preceded by the presentation of the monograph ‘Salon Galić 1924–2024’, which tells the story of the exhibition space’s hundred-year history. The monograph includes a revised and updated list of exhibitions held at Salon Galić from 1924 to 1961, as well as research on the salon’s visual identity and the graphic design of its posters, invitations and catalogues during the interwar period.
