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Miroslav Tichý

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dimanche 14 août 2005 [n° 310]

Un Diogène de la photographie Miroslav Tichy, photographies, Kunsthaus de Zurich Jusqu’au 18 septembre. Ma-je 10 h-21 h, ve-di 10 h-17 h.

Catalogue de l’exposition “Miroslav Tichý” (Kunsthaus Zürich, 15. Juli bis 18. September 2005) / ISBN: 3-8321-7593-8

Miroslav Tichý 15 Juillet -18. Septembre 2005

Motives

“Miroslav Tichý was born in 1926 in Brno, Czech Republic, where he still lives. Shortly after his photographs were first exhibited in the Biennial of Sevilla, Spain, curated by Harald Szeemann, he acclaimed world wide recognition. From 15 July to 18 September the Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland, will present an extensive survey exhibition with Miroslav Tichý”.

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In the mid 1940s Miroslav Tichý attends the Academy of Arts in Prague, where he concentrates on drawing and painting. His early works are distinctively influenced by Expressionism. After the communist overthrow in 1948 the young and promising world of the artist begins to tremble. Not willing to subordinate himself to the political system and follow the dicdates of Socialist Realism, he soon becomes an outsider. 1

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In the 1960s Miroslav Tichý, who is the son of a gentlemen’s tailor, begins to neglect his appearance to such an extent, that his clothes fall from his body in rags. In his small home town he is increasingly being avoided as a derelict critic of the system. During this period he begins his photographic expeditions.

The artist’s tireless capturing of his immediate environment seems like an attempt to get a grip on a reality from which he has withdrawn and that is now rejecting him in return. In allusion to Plato’s cave allegory, he regards the world as mere reflection and himself as its only conscious observer. Often Miroslav Tichý applies intricate pencil drawings onto the surface of his photographs and frames them with sensitively designed passepartouts, thus enhancing their profound poetry. Due to the yearlong storage in his run-down house, a melancholic veil of stains has layered itself upon the photographs. Miroslav Tichý works inhere an enigmatic and translucent atmosphere. In the mid 1980s the artist decides to give up artistic production: ‘I had a norm. One hundred photographs a day. (…) When I reached my norm, I stopped.’2

Method

Tichý made most of his photographic equipment himself with great skill and fantasy from tins, spectacle lenses and wooden boxes.

“He used his cameras to record the daily round of the female population of his native town. Thus he produced thousands of photographs of women: women at the market, at the swimming pool, at work, in pubs, in the streets and public squares. Then, using his own home-made enlarging equipment, he would meticulously select details and rework the prints, sometimes even by hand, colouring or retouching them and, for some of them, creating individual hand-cut, painted passepartouts”. 3

Miroslav Tichý”. Zürich, hasta el 18/09/05
La fotografía sin artificio La obra de Miroslav Tichý en el Kunsthaus Zürich , masdearte.com

Resistance

The promising young artist became an outsider. His works demonstrates his utter determination to achieve full artistic autonomy despite the totalitarian society in which he lived.

Tichýs first solo exhibition

Around 110 works by Miroslav Tichý from 1960 to 1990 are brought together in the Kunsthaus Zürich. This is Tichýs first solo exhibition. The curator of this presentation is Tobia Bezzola.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue (published by DuMont, Cologne) with an essay by Tobia Bezzola and a biographical essay by Roman Buxbaum (171 pages, c. 130 colour reproductions).

Film-Dokumentation

“Sein ehemaliger Nachbar, der heute in Zürich lebende Künstler und Psychiater Roman Buxbaum, hat Miroslav Tichýs Leben und Werk seit 20 Jahren fotografisch und filmisch dokumentiert; er bereitet zur Zeit ein Film-Porträt über den Künstler vor, das zur Ausstellung Premiere feiern wird.

Zur Ausstellung erscheint im Verlag DuMont die erste Monographie über Miroslav Tichý, mit Beiträgen von Tobia Bezzola und Roman Buxbaum”.

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Photo : Miroslav Tichý Inv.-Nr. 1-35, untitled, undated. © Tichý oceán foundation


  1. The Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague was established in 1885, in accordance with Sempers ideas, to offer education in the applied arts. The teaching staff and graduates of the school have strongly influenced art styles in Czech architecture and art, and include many of the most significant personalities in Czech society – e.g., the architects J. Kotìra, J. Pleènik, the sculptor O. Gutfreund, the painter J. Preisler, and many others. Promising development was interrupted by the second world war and 40 years of communist rule in the Czech Republic, but even in this period many teachers tried to continue the Academy´s positive heritage: the glassmaker Z. Libeòský, the painters K. Svolinský, F. Muzika, etc” (source : Expats Prague). [back]
  2. Miroslav Tichý 25 June 2005 – 8 August 2005 Artnews.info Berlin [back]
  3. Kunsthaus Zürich Presents Miroslav Tichy Artline.ro [back]
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