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Miroslav Tichý /

Miroslav Tichý

 

OPENING RECEPTION

Friday, November 20, 2009
6 – 9 p.m.

EXHIBITIONS DATES

November 21, 2009 - January 30, 2010

Jiri Svestka Berlin
Zimmerstrasse 90-91
10117 Berlin

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jiri Svestka Berlin is pleased to present a survey of the life and work of the extraordinary Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý. The genesis of these remarkable photographic works was in the little town of Kyjov, southern Moravia, where Miroslav Tichý (b.1926) was raised. Dissapointed by the rejection of his works and rising state sensorship, Tichý abandoned his formal studies of drawing and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague shortly after the Communist take over in 1948. He returned home to live a life of artistic solitude, focusing instead on his favorite motif, women. Over the next thirty years, with homemade cameras in hand, Tichý managed to produce a body of unique mixed media works, that yielded not only his perchant for voyeuristic fantasy, abstraction and embellishment, but also an innate understanding of the painterly potential locked with in the photographic medium.

For the majority of his life, Tichýs works went completely unnoticed by the public. Though his work was produced in a small town locked behind the iron curtain, it was more Tichýs Diogenian way of life that kept him an outsider artist. As such, his works speak from a shockingly non-postmodern perspective. Unaffected, unabashed and daringly non-self referential, his entire oeuvre is completely unique in terms of concept, atmosphere, and content. There is no comparable category in contemporary photography.

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PAST SHOWS

  • JSG / Another step forward - our gallery moved to Prague
  • Georg Ettl / Early works from 1960s and 70s
  • Jitka Hanzlova / HORSE
  • Karima Al-Mukhtarova / I don´t agree with myself
  • Jan van der Pol / A NEW DAY
  • Jan Durina / STUDIES
  • Jiri Cernicky, Andrej Dubravsky, Jarg Geismar, Kristof Kintera, Maki Na Kamura, Katarina Poliacikova, Pavel Prikasky, Sofie Svejdova / L´ACCROCHAGE
  • Katarína Poliačiková / Maybe the last one I see
  • Hans Rath / Chêne Blanc
  • Sofie Svejdova / Big Hug Mug / TV series paintings
  • David Böhm / Jiri Franta / Making of
  • Jårg Geismar / feeling my own blood
  • Mark Ther / Das wandernde Sternlein
  • Kristof Kintera, Andrej Dubravsky, David Böhm|Jiri Franta, Maki Na Kamura, Stefan a Wengen, Nadine Fecht, Roey Heifetz, Dora Eszter Molnar / Accrochage 13/14
  • Based on Paper / David Böhm | Jiri Franta, Nadine Fecht, Roey Heifetz, Dora Eszter Molnar, Christian Pilz
  • Yunchul Kim / Eluvial Horizon
  • Kristof Kintera / Bad News
  • Katarina Poliacikova / Sonntag
  • Jan Kotik / Die Fläche versucht nach Luft zu schnappen
  • Andrej Dubravsky / Golden Sands
  • Jiri Franta | David Böhm / ECHOLOG
  • Adela Babanova / Ich hab hier eine Leiche
  • Petra Feriancova / A Report on the Time Spending
  • Leonid Tishkov / Derelict Utopies: Dabloids and Ladomir
  • Michal Pechoucek with guest Martin Kohout / Virgins´ Lives
  • Group exhibition / On the Threshold
  • Stefan à Wengen / Comfortably Numb
  • Josef Bolf / Don't Look Now
  • Jaromir Novotny / Visible paintings
  • Hans Rath / Flughafen Tempelhof und andere Bilder
  • Marketa Othova
  • Kristof Kintera / A Bigger Problem Than Yours
  • Veronika Holcova / Onerous Past, Uncertain Future
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  • Ioana Nemes / Relics for the Afterfuture (Brown)


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