THE MAZE RUNNER Cuban Silkscreen for Cuba SCIENCE FICTION Movie Poster Art Show

Description: To our collector, interior designer and eBay friends worldwide: In addition to this special poster, the Cuban Poster Gallery in Washington D.C. is offering a huge selection of handmade Cuban silk-screen movie posters, many of which work beautifully well together. To view all of the posters, please visit our eBay Store stores.ebay.com/CubanPosterGallery where new listings are regularly being posted in both the Auction and Buy It Now/Best Offer formats. The Cuban Poster Gallery appreciates your business!OUR PRICE FOR THIS GRAPHIC IS $349 The Cuban Poster Gallery is delighted to offer this original, hand-signed Cuban screen-print, a limited-edition poster created for a 2024 art project in Havana, Cuba that salutes more than a dozen of the world's most famous modern-era science fiction movies. The poster in this listing salutes THE MAZE RUNNER, a dystopian 2014 film about a teenage boy who awakens in a rusty elevator with no memory of who he is. The boy finds himself in the middle of an intricate maze with many other boys who have been trying to escape while trying to establish a new society they call the Glade. This THE MAZE RUNNER tribute poster was unveiled at an exhibition in Havana in October 2024. The exhibition, titled MAS ALLA DEL CARTEL ("Beyond the Poster"), offered more proof of the immense artistic talent on the Caribbean island, which in the fall of 2024 was enduring extensive food shortages and blackouts. Sixteen posters were created for this project by 15 Cuban-born artists. This bold and sophisticated THE MAZE RUNNER silkscreen was designed by the Havana-based artist Samantha Martinez. The poster measures approximately 27 1/2 by 19 1/2 inches (70 by 50 cm). Only 50 copies of this poster were made, ensuring it will always be rare. The poster is signed and numbered. Please be advised that our stock in these limited-edition science fiction posters is extremely limited. The number on the poster you receive may differ from the one in the stock photos we have posted. Be assured that you will receive the lowest number in our stock. (We invite you to visit our eBay Store to view the other Cuban science-fiction movie posters that we have acquired. You can search for these posters with the key words CUBA SCIENCE FICTION POSTER )Overall condition of this poster is good. As with many handmade Cuban graphics, some small imperfections are possible. But this poster is in great shape! Buy with 100 percent confidence; posters purchased from the Cuban Poster Gallery on eBay can be returned for any reason within 30 days. About shipping: For buyers with an address in the United States, your purchase will be shipped FREE by USPS Ground Advantage or UPS with delivery confirmation. For international buyers (outside of the United States), eBay will calculate the cost of shipping and any required Customs duties and taxes. TITLE: THE MAZE RUNNER, designed to salute this 2014 American science fiction film DESIGNER: Samantha Martinez MEDIUM: Screen-print / Serigraph YEAR: 2024 SIGNED: Yes, by the artist's hand SIZE: approximately 27 1/2 by 19 1/2 inches; 70 x 50 cm EDITION: Only 50 copies were made ORIGIN: Havana, Cuba A few words about collecting the Cuban silk-screen movie posters that we also offer in our eBay Store: For more than 60 years, the Cuban Film Institute has been designing silk-screened posters for most every movie shown on the island, whether the films originated in Cuba, the United States, Brazil, Japan or Italy. In the midst of the Cold War 1960s and 1970s, many of the subtitled foreign films shown in Cuba came from the island nation's communist allies in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Vietnam and even North Korea. Unlike in the United States, where movie posters are often dominated by images of Hollywood stars, the Cubans assign a graphic artist to design an original piece of artwork for each film. These posters are widely recognized in graphic design circles as stylish works of art, handmade one color at a time and often under difficult circumstances (at various times, paint and even paper have been in short supply on the island.) Cuba's silk-screen movie posters are nothing less than museum pieces. Examples of Cuban poster art can be found in the permanent collections of museums across the globe from the Victoria & Albert in London to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as in prestigious institutions such as the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. Adding to their collectability, Cuba's movie posters are produced in relatively small numbers. Typically, a few hundred copies are made for each film, although the runs have been as low as 50. Responding to demand from collectors, the Cuban Film Institute has re-screened some of its more popular posters. That's why some posters created in the 1960s and 1970s began reappearing on the Caribbean island in the 1990s and 2000s. Further adding to their collectability, many of Cuba's vintage posters are imperiled. Although a few hundred copies may have been screened originally, relatively few have survived, due to the island's wet and humid climate, inadequate storage facilities in Havana and improper handling in Cuba and elsewhere. To us, these survivors are rare beauties, even those with obvious flaws. We are proud to have rescued hundreds of posters from almost certain extinction by storing them in an air conditioned, acid-free environment. We at the Cuban Poster Gallery offer both 1st and 2nd Edition posters to our customers on eBay and in our Washington D.C. gallery. We consider both to be collectible, and (in response to a question we often get) all of these posters were legally imported because the U.S. government exempts artwork from its economic embargo against Cuba. While the pricier originals are favored by some collectors, the re-screens are also collectible because they were made in the same Havana workshop as the originals. Note that we never sell unauthorized reproductions that have been cranked out in print shops in the U.S. and Europe. To our eBay customers, we pledge to accurately describe the posters we list and price them fairly based on condition and scarcity. Have a question? Please don't hesitate to contact us. To view more distinctive Cuban graphics, we invite you to visit the Cuban Poster Gallery's eBay Store: http://stores.ebay.com/cubanpostergallery

Price: 349 USD

Location: Washington, District Of Columbia

End Time: 2025-01-04T21:28:03.000Z

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