Ed Fella’s Flyers Blur the Lines Between Design and Art

In 2010, I curated a selection of Ed Fella’s famous flyers, created “after the fact”—as he put it—for his own lectures, in an exhibition about Surrealism and graphic design at the Moravian Gallery in the Czech Republic. I wanted to propose a different way of looking at Fella’s work, which had been, at that point, mostly discussed in relation to...