The exhibition "Prevention Posters of the 20th Century" at the Museum of Steel and Mining in León
The Museum of Steel and Mining of León hosts until April 29 the exhibition “Prevention Posters of the 20th Century”, organized by Fraternidad-Muprespa in collaboration with the AXA Foundation and the museum itself.
This is an exhibition that is part of the events organized by events around the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, which is celebrated every April 28.
This is the exhibition of Prevention Posters of the 20th century
Visitors will be able to take a tour of the exhibition, contemplating the design and graphics of posters dated from 1905 to the 70s, when the media, radio and television, were consolidated as means of communication to transmit and reach the general public advertising and all types of messages.
The exhibition contains posters alluding to the three vertices of the triangle in which workplace accidents are framed: insurance, prevention, and in the last case, medical and economic compensation for the injured party. In addition, using QR codes, it allows you to consolidate the content of each piece.
With clear messages and very graphic illustrations to reach the less educated population, these posters were, on numerous occasions, the work of important artists in this discipline, such as Cerra, Callejo, Peruz or Robledano, when not one of these signatures was the pseudonym used by great painters of the time who hid their identity.
Both the images of the set of posters and their typography address different agricultural, industrial, or mining situations, as well as the different risks in each of them: chemicals, fires, muscle injuries due to overload, poisoning, mental fatigue, etc., and they do so by evidencing currents of art deco posterism, realism, constructivism, etc.
The institutional closing ceremony of this exhibition will take place in Sabero on April 26, with the attendance of the maximums representatives of Fraternidad-Muprespa and AXA Foundation, with the participation of the Parque de las Ciencias Museum being planned in this event, which will transfer a mythical mining piece to the Leonese museum, as a sign of the path of collaboration that both museums are undertaking.
