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11/4/2011

Two exhibitions

Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig

Miroslav Tichý. Photographs and Illustrations

Miroslav Tichý himself never cared to be in the limelight, he sought neither to be exhibited nor to be published. It simply did not seem desirable to him. He repeatedly declared that the world was a mere pretense, an illusion, in which we perceive only that what we want to perceive.

In the late 1940s, following his training at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, Tichý started out as a painter and illustrator. However, the totalitarian conditions surrounding him paired with personal experiences meant that he increasingly alienated himself from the official art and cultural scene. Eventually, Tichý withdrew completely from the public eye and one day he began to take photographs.

As time went on, he increasingly neglected his appearance, growing a beard, leaving his hair long and matted, his clothes mere rags. Children were mostly afraid of him to start with. They believed that his photographic equipment was fake and that, in reality, he was not a photographer at all. His apartment had the look and feel of a crazy inventor’s workshop. There was no heating, meaning that the winters were damp and cold. There were pictures, illustrations and photographs strewn about the floor, collecting mold. But this was not important to him. Tichý who was born in a small village in Moravia on November 20, 1926 has today grown to be more amicable; he no longer scares curious visitors away with a battleaxe. He stopped taking pictures in the early 1990s. The ball got rolling several years ago when the nephew of an old friend convinced him to hold his first exhibition and Harald Szeemann presented him at the 2004 Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo in Seville. The world has taken an interest in the old “Samurai” ever since.

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Aspects: Globally-Regionally-Locally // Sichtweisen: Global-Regional-Lokal
Gallery raumLABOR
Hamburger Straße 267, Braunschweig

In autumn 2010 German and Polish students met in the Lower Silesian village Kreisau/ Krzyżowa in Poland, home of Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, co-founder of a non-violent resistance circle to and victim of the Nazi government. For the tenth time this place hosted a German-Polish multimedia workshop between the partner universities HBK Braunschweig and the Academy of Art and Design Wrocław. The results of the photographic, film, and audiovisual work will now be exhibited at the gallery raumLABOR in Braunschweig.

The opening will take place on 13 April 2011 at 7 p. m. Dr. Gregorz G. Zgraja, assistant professor at the HBK and senate representative for German-Polish university contacts will give the introduction to the exhibition.

The exhibiting artists and designers are: Manuel Albert, Damian Christidis, Christof Görs, Rico Lützner, Pawel Modzelewski, Olga Misiura, Ireneusz Olszewski, Klaus Paul, Konstantin Reinhart, Stanislaw Sasak, Agata Szuba, Gregorz G. Zgraja.

Image: Miroslav Tichý, Untitled, photography/mixed media
© Miroslav Tichý, Courtesy Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne

Opening 12 April 2011, 7 pm

Braunschweig University of Art's gallery
Lessingplatz 12 - Braunschweig
Mon – Fri 1 – 6 pm, Thu 1 – 8 pm
closed on public holidays

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