CHICAGO, IL.- Instituto Cervantes of Chicago, the city’s leading not-for-profit center for Spanish language and cultural exchange, announced the extension of “Moscoso Cosmos: The Visual Universe of Victor Moscoso." The exhibition, originally scheduled to run through June 15, is now extended through July 15.

This new curated exhibition spotlights the graphic design work of Spanish-American artist and AIGA Medalist Victor Moscoso, best known for his psychedelic rock posters, advertisements and underground comix in San Francisco during the '60s and ‘70s.

The New York Times observes, “Moscoso’s riotous, perceptually and conceptually confounding works advanced a countercultural ethos of imaginative and instinctual freedom whose effects continue to reverberate in today’s artistic culture.” New City says, "They are as beautiful as they are bewildering, and haven’t aged a minute: the exhibit of Moscoso’s posters at the Instituto Cervantes (through June 15) conveys every bit of the revolutionary fervor they contained during the time of their creation in the sixties."

“Moscoso Cosmos: The Visual Universe of Victor Moscoso” brings a wide selection of the work of one of the most original and influential graphic designers of the 20th century, showcasing Moscoso’s famous psychedelic rock posters made in just eight months from 1966 until 1967, and 14 issues of the underground magazine Zap Comix published from 1968 for more than 40 years.

Also included in the exhibition are a selection of posters, record covers, comic strips, illustrations for books and magazines and animation and biographic photographs that complete a journey marked by iconic images of the second half of the 20th century. Moscoso's work comes mainly from the collection of the City Council of A Coruña, the largest public collection of the artist in Europe.

Victor Moscoso was born in the Coruña town Vilaboa (A Coruña, España) in 1936. In 1940, he traveled with his family to New York and settled down in Brooklyn. He trained as a designer and an artist at the Industrial Art Institute in Manhattan, at the Cooper Union School and at the Yale University School of Art, where he was a student of Bauhausmaster Josef Albers, whose teachings about color interaction would become a fundamental cornerstone in his work as a graphist.

In 2017, Moscoso received the Augustus Saint-Gauden award from the Cooper Union and in 2018 the AIGA medal, one of the most recognized awards in the graphic design field. He is considered the most original and ingenious within the genre and his work is constantly reviewed in new exhibitions, anthologies and essays. Currently, Victor Moscoso continues drawing, making collages and painting in his studio in San Jerónimo Valley, Calif.