The exhibition "High quality"

The book and illustrative exhibition "High quality" is timed to coincide with the year of quality, which is announced in 2024. The exhibition includes publications and posters from the National Library of Belarus, telling about the Soviet and modern understanding of the quality category, as well as about the perception of the topic and the quality problem by Soviet poster artists.

The topic of quality as a subject of scientific research bothered Soviet and interested modern Belarusian authors. A distinctive place in the exposition is given to publications referring to the origins of the development of the standard "State quality mark" and telling about the competition "For the image of a quality mark" (1967), held in the USSR, about the experience of awarding a Quality Mark by enterprises whose products corresponded to a high technical level, quality and reliability. The set of documents presented at the exhibition, reflecting modern approaches to improving the quality of life of the Belarusian people, demonstrate the versatility and potential of the Belarusian economy, accessibility and quality of education, and the peculiarity of national culture.

Quality is one of the most popular everyday social themes for poster artists in the 1950s and 1980s. With humour, irony and inspiration, the problems of the quality of life, work, the level of quality of products, goods and production, both factory, clothing, and agricultural, are considered. The authors have a special response to the specifics of high-quality construction, maintenance, services and education. A number of posters presented in the exhibition were created by the famous graphics of the Union of Artists of the BSSR Nikolai Gurlo, Franz Vipasam, Jeanne Sikora, etc. The exhibition includes posters from the series "Belarusian propaganda poster", as well as humorous sketches of the creative association of artists "Combat Pencil", which has been engaged in propaganda work since 1939. Among the authors who worked in the publication are famous masters of satire, Soviet artists Viktor Travin, Vladislav Kunnap, Dmitry Abaznenko, Georgy Kovenchuk, Leonid Kaminsky and others.

Expressive, pungent, concise, humorous comic plots of satirical posters depict parasites, drug dealers, idlers and boors. Propaganda posters on the topic of quality are bright, extraordinary, catchy, filled with dignity and integrity, formulations express confidence in the need for high-quality modernity. Concise titles and unexpected punning phrases in the headlines of posters and titles of publications are full of energy and inspiration, the desire to mark, identify, eradicate, and necessarily protect the right cause.

"High quality" draws attention to the very idea of quality and clearly emphasizes the need for its presence in everyday life. The exhibition for the year of quality tells about the past and today, about annoying and funny coincidences outside of time, about the special color of Soviet life, which is interesting to recall, and about urgent scientific and practical inventions in the space of Belarusian quality. A modern resident of Belarus, like a Soviet citizen before, deserves to have services, goods and conditions around him performed at the proper quality level.

The exhibition is available in the Mobile gallery (3rd floor) until April 30, 2024.
The completion date can be changed.

The opening hours of the exhibition corresponds to the library’s opening hours
Admission is by the library ticket or ticket of the library's social and cultural center.

The material is presented by the department of gallery and exhibition activities.