Carteles sin palabras

Group exhibition at the Casa del Lector del Matadero in Madrid featuring posters that convey ideas without any written text. It brings together work by designers, illustrators and photographers from several Ibero-American countries.

The exhibition brings together posters by sixty-four creators from several Ibero-American countries, all made around the same premise: communicating without typography or written words. Each participant was assigned a specific term that they had to translate using graphic resources alone, so visitors are faced with images that must suggest a meaning on their own.

The works combine illustrations, photographic compositions, icons and mixed techniques. By dispensing with text, the entire communicative burden falls on the evocative power of the image and the strength of each concept, which turns the visit into an exercise in visual reading for those who enjoy graphic design and contemporary poster art.

The show is part of the Madrid Gráfica programme and coincides with the 4th Foro Iberoamericano de Investigación y Diseño. It is organised by the association Iberoamérica Diseña and co-organised by Madrid City Council together with the Foro de Empresas, and it explores how to solve a poster without using text.