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Papaver
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Registered: 06/01/02
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Loc: Radio Free Tibet!
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Gomi No Sensei...
#5694713 - 05/31/06 12:26 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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"Rubin, in some way that no one quite understands, is a master, a teacher, what the Japanese call a sensei. What he's a master of, really, is garbage, kipple, refuse, the sea of cast-off goods our century floats on. Gomi no sensei. Master of junk."
--William Gibson
 One of Tichy's Camera's made from Gomi (junk, refuse, cast-offs)MIROSLAV TICHY"Tichy is truly one of the great ‘finds’ of an unknown artists who worked on the outside edges of the art world. Following the communist takeover Tichy spent some eight years in prison camps and jails for no particular reason other than he was ‘different’ and was considered subversive. Upon his release in the early 70’s, Tichy wandered his small town in rags, pursuing his obsession as an artist with the female form by photographing in the streets, shops and parks with cameras he made from tin cans, childrens spectacle lenses and other junk he found on the street. He would return home each day to make prints on equally primitive equipment, making only one print from the negatives he selected.
He stole intimate glimpses of his subjects through windows and the fences of swimming pools as well as in the streets, sometimes finding himself in trouble with the police. He would often draw intricately on each print in pencil embellishing the images with his lines or reworking them in other ways, Tichy would also sometimes include a card frame around the prints and decorate those too.
The work which might to the casual viewer, simply appear to be intrusive voyeurism, takes on a melancholic and poetic quality. They are exquisitely produced small objects of obsession, which have no equal. He produced work - not for others, but solely for himself without any regard for exhibiting or selling the work to others. Tichy's pictures were only known to a few until last July, where he won the 'New Discovery Award' at Arles. An exhibition of his work was also shown at the Kunsthaus Zurih in September 2005, and was one of the most curious and perhaps controversial photographic events of 2005.
Tichy was born in 1926 in what is now the Czech Republic and studied painting at the Academy of Art in Prague until his arrest. We are delighted to be able to offer these unique works for sale in the UK and will be holding a show of Tichy work in May 2006. This exhibition will coincide with a show of works by Jacques Henri Lartigue of prints from his seminal 1962 MOMA show."http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artists/tichy/index.htm
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Blastrid
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Registered: 01/14/02
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Re: Gomi No Sensei... [Re: Papaver]
#5694741 - 05/31/06 12:34 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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PAPPY! welcome back to MAL!
prints from back then are typically so staged and coordinated (due to the machines and the means), it's fascinating to see something so candid from so long ago. I look forward to browsing the gallery a bit later today.
yay for pappy!
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funkymonk
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Registered: 11/29/02
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Re: Gomi No Sensei... [Re: Blastrid]
#5698683 - 06/01/06 07:44 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I read about Tichy a couple years ago, tried doing a paper on him, but came up abit short on research material at the library though.
I'd like to see some of your recent painting papaver
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Papaver
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Re: Gomi No Sensei... [Re: funkymonk]
#5702742 - 06/02/06 02:21 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ok. I'll start a thread with some new paintings in it. 
I just got back home after a spending a week in Idaho, seeing Bauhaus in concert, looking at petroglyphs in the desert, and visiting with friends. I also filled the car with art supplies on the trip, and I'm am ready to get some good work done this summer.
Hey Blastrid!
How's things been?
I see MAL has subcategories now. That's a good idea. However, now that I think about it, we may have had subcategories before I left -- my memory is getting sketchy any more; must be an age thing...
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