Miroslav Tichý print size?

[Bill_1856]

His images are "interesting," if not compelling. Does anybody know what are the size of his prints?

[Jiri Vasina]

It's been some time (years) since I have seen his exhibition in a gallery, so only from my memory: some of the images are pocket size (like 9x12cm), some are large/largish like 30x40cm. I think the majority would be around 18x24-24x30cm.

But as all his presented images were matted by the author, and he usually draws around or in or through the photo, you have to consider his photos together with the matting as one piece.

(Btw. his pictures are interesting, but he is definitely weird and maybe even mad. Him being known by others is not his doing. My impression is that he did nothing to promote or show his photos, it's the doing of people around him. From what I have seen he seems to not be interested in the money flowing around his work, most of which goes to the galleries and other people. You can not imagine in what horrible conditions he is living, but mostly because he chooses to).

[GPS]

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(Btw. his pictures are interesting, but he is definitely weird and maybe even mad. Him being known by others is not his doing.

If being "weird and maybe even mad" is what it takes to be a great artist, then be it!
Btw, he was well known by the famous "Charta 77" people even long before his photographic fame came to be known. And indeed, his pictures are often small, due to the constraints of his way of living. En excellent artist, faithful to himself in an epoch of lies officially icon-ed as the holy truth by a regime of liars. Equally interesting, as his photographs, are his sayings betraying normality that some would like to deny him...

[Jiri Vasina]

GPS, have you seen pictures of his living quarters?

[GPS]

GPS, have you seen pictures of his living quarters?

I saw his pictures - his living quarters are well inside him...:)

[Jiri Vasina]

So you have not seen his living quarters, and therefore you can not understand his weirdness - which is not demeaning his work.

I've seen pictures of his home, and a movie about him in his home where he is also "starring" and answering some questions. Based on this I'm saying he is weird and maybe even mad. And as I have said earlier, it does not make his work less interesting, or his pictures any worse.

Some people love his work, some people like it, some people dislike it, some people find what it has to say, some don't. But that can be said about any art.

[Bill_1856]

I wonder if he has/had a darkroom where he develops his film and makes his own prints, or if he takes the film to the neighberhood lab/pharmacy and works with what they give him?
Incidentally, how old is he?

[Jiri Vasina]

He does everything himself, as can be seen from some of his photos, he even fabricates his cameras. At least some of them. I'd think he never used a lab.

He was born in 1926 and since 1930 lives in Kyjov (near Brno in the Czech Republic). He has stopped photographing more than 16 years ago. His first real exhibition was in 2004 in Sevilla.

Here is a link to one of his pictures representing his "framing" or "drawing the frames in the photos"

http://www.paladix.cz/clanky/img.php?ido=18102&act=res

[GPS]

So you have not seen his living quarters, and therefore you can not understand his weirdness - which is not demeaning his work.

I've seen pictures of his home, and a movie about him in his home where he is also "starring" and answering some questions. Based on this I'm saying he is weird and maybe even mad. And as I have said earlier, it does not make his work less interesting, or his pictures any worse.

Some people love his work, some people like it, some people dislike it, some people find what it has to say, some don't. But that can be said about any art.

Everyone has right to his own opinion, you too, calm down.
I heard personal accounts of him long before he was famous, by people that knew him personnelly...:) Some even thought his homemade cameras were non functioning fakes... At that time you didn't even know he existed...;)

[GPS]

I wonder if he has/had a darkroom where he develops his film and makes his own prints, or if he takes the film to the neighberhood lab/pharmacy and works with what they give him?
Incidentally, how old is he?

Bill, google "miroslav tichy" and you'll find plenty of interesting info about him, with pics too. There is also a book with his pictures on Amazon.

[Bill_1856]

Boys, boys -- behave!

GPS, I did Google it and very interesting and informative it is, too.
Thanks everybody.

[Ross Chambers]

Bugger that old fart Tichy, I want to know about Roman Buxbaum. Boy, does HE know how to exploit a property. Films, galleries, websites, the prices (!!) Hey Roman, if you're reading, you can have the contents of MY trash bin for a grand or so, although I don't have rats contributing to the deckle edges a la Tichy.

To answer, approximately, the original question: the prints on show at the Biennale of Sydney are smallish, somewhere between 8"x10" and 5"x7".

The Tichy cameras on show defy the belief that anyone could make an exposure with them.

Maybe Sydney had to accept the leftovers from the London and Paris shows, but they are really bad. The most egregious, to my eye, are the ones taken of a television screen, but I guess the new curator style of artspeak could weave a eulogy around those, too.

As mentioned above I suspect fraud.

Regards - Ross

[GPS]

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As mentioned above I suspect fraud.

Regards - Ross

Buxbaum and Tichy are good friends on solid grounds - their friendship was forged in their common suffering (prison, exile,) during their anti -communist opposition. Tichy, faithful to himself, couldn't care less for money.

[Annie M.]

there is a short bio here that includes his development methods (moonlight) and some images with sizes...

http://www.cirkusworld.com/tichy/tichy.html

[Bill_1856]

Thanks, Annie.

[John Capreze]

These guys have a large collection by Tichy, I saw some of the works. really amazing stuff. www.groosmanphoto.ch

cheers,

John