I have garnered more attention and traffic from my posts about Miroslav Tichy then I have from anyhting else on this blog by far. For whatever reason, people really enjoy Tichy's photographs. I think there is something about their nostalgic, dreamy quality that remind us of a generic past, or they strike a chord from our past with each picture's suggestion of some fogged over memory.
This from Modern Painters on Tichy:
"Are you, like me, one of those dreamers who rummage about in secondhand shops for a forgotten Van Gogh? And do you perhaps believe that there might still be some undiscovered old master out there? If so, you shouldn’t miss Miroslav Tichy's exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich. It’s the result of one of those art fairytales that should no longer be possible in our globalized artworld. You might reply that you’ve never heard of Tichy. An emerging artist, but not a rising star? What, he’s eighty years old and his first solo show goes straight into the main space in the Kunsthaus Zurich? He lives out in the sticks, somewhere near Brno in southern Moravia, a place he hasn’t left for 50 years? His cameras are made from trash, the lenses cut with a knife from Plexiglas, and he’s taken thousands of wonderful shots? Fifty years, 100 photographs every day and he’s never shown them to anyone, all just for himself? Sorry, he can’t be real. Someone's having you on!"
Tichy's work is still on exhibit at Arndt and Partner in Berlin through August 8.
I would like to thank Joerg Colberg over at Conscientious for the mention and the traffic. Thanks.
You can check out my two previous Tichy posts here and here.
Posted by Paul Hina at July 12, 2005 10:41 AM