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Wednesday 17 November 2010
Miroslav Tichy
I absolutly adore the work of Miroslav Tichy. I discovered him a few years ago in The Pompidou Center in Paris. I fell in love. Although unquestionably voyeristic his photographs seem to capture a haunting, romantisism in a time where communisim and hardship were rife.
I have recently re-discovered his greatness.
Info:
Tichy left the Academy of Arts in Prague following the communist overthrow of 1948. Unwilling to subordinate to the political system he spent some eight years in prison and psychiatric wards for no reason other than he was ‘different’ and considered subversive. Upon his release he became an outsider, occupying his time by obsessively taking photographs of the women of Brno, using homemade cameras constructed from tin cans, children’s spectacle lenses, rubber bands, scotch tape and other junk found on the streets. He captured images of their ankles, faces and torsos whilst out strolling or sunbathing, behind the counter shop-girls, mothers pushing prams, and any others who caught his eye, sometimes finding himself in trouble with the police.
Each of Tichy’s photographs is unique - he would sometimes add frames decorated with watercolour inks or embellish the photographs with pencil lines. Many prints are veiled in stains after years of being discarded in Tichy’s dilapidated house.
Ref erence: http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com
Tuesday 16 November 2010
Down / Up
Just wanted to take some time to reflect on Martin Creeds well organised exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery which has not long finished its summer run.
Couldn't help but thinking how he stores the work when it is in transit!?!
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