A Camera of Miroslav Tichý

Summary

Exhibition dates: 28th April – 29th May 2010 A camera of Miroslav Tichý These are fascinating photographs (and in part, more than a little what? marginal, disturbing, poetic, beautiful, creepy, voyeuristic, misogynist). Tichy’s camera is such an amazing construction (click on the image above to see a larger version). Dr Marcus Bunyan Many thankx to Jim Edwards and the Michael Hoppen Gallery for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. “Women are just a motif to me. The figure – standing, bending, or sitting. The movement, walking. Nothing else Interests me. The erotic is just a dream anyway. The world is only an illusion, our illusion.” “Everything is decided by the earth, which is turning. You can only live as long as the earth keeps turning. That is predetermined. .Miroslav Tichý Miroslav Tichý (Czech, 1926-2011)Untitledc. 1960sUnique Silver gelatin printCourtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery© Miroslav Tichy Miroslav Tichý (Czech, 1926-2011)Untitledc. 1960sUnique Silver gelatin printCourtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery© Miroslav Tichy Miroslav Tichý (Czech, 1926-2011)Untitledc. 1960sUnique Silver gelatin printCourtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery© Miroslav Tichy The recently unknown photographic work of Czech artist Miroslav Tichý has become a noteworthy presence in the worlds of photography and contemporary art over the last few years. Timeless and uncategorisable, Tichý’s work captures the women of Kijov, from the artist’s native city in Moravia. On 28 April 2010, the Michael Hoppen Gallery will bring together unique photographs, previously unseen in the UK, created in the 1960’s by Tichý with his makeshift cameras and enlargers. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is marked by many classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With hi...