Předobrazy, prostor, abstrakce
An exhibition introducing the most recent output of this young artist who has already managed to attract a good deal of attention to his previous shows in this country as well as abroad. Jiří Thýn (b. 1977) studied with Professor Pavel Štecha at the Photography Department of Prague´s Academy of Art, Architecture and Design, but has progressively tended towards other media, by relativizing his approach to photography in an excitingly polemic manner (as in Stripe Test, or Calibrated Photography).
By no means is it mere coincidence that he has frequently drawn inspiration in Modernism and Avant-garde art (as in his photograms).
- Artyčok presents a monochromatic exhibition.00:00:00.368
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- The yellow refers to modernism.00:00:10.439
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- I chose it as a basic technical colour.00:00:18.172
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- I thought of making it black, but that seemed too sad to me.00:00:23.149
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- So eventually, I chose yellow.00:00:33.359
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- Jiří Thýn / Models, space, abstraction00:00:38.016
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- It's a regular stone from the river, but presented in a way that...00:00:39.481
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- I should mention that the exhibition is very monochromatic.00:00:42.580
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- It's colour photographs but they give an impression of a monochrome.00:00:46.784
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- Thinking about photography made me think about abstraction.00:00:53.080
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- About the issue of space in photography.00:00:59.295
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- I started thinking about how to deal with it in my work.00:01:02.059
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- We came to the conclusion that cubist principles could be used.00:01:07.899
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- I chose the sculptor Otto Gutfreund.00:01:23.313
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- The photograph is taken from the front, from the sides and the back.00:01:27.108
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- Viewed from all 4 sides, it becomes an abstract image.00:01:31.294
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- I used work by Katarina Kobro, a Polish sculptor,00:01:40.498
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- and a student of Malewich, active in the 1920s.00:01:44.537
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- She was making 3-D studies.00:01:50.754
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- The only thing I did was enlarge her work several times.00:01:55.301
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- The original is 50 cm tall.00:02:02.282
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- I approached the work via an abstract drawing,00:02:09.540
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- created by the lighting of the object or the shadow cast.00:02:13.603
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- In the last phase of blowing the photograph up,00:02:26.022
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- the photographic paper is developed, interrupted, and fixed.00:02:30.272
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- This is followed by washing it.00:02:38.747
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- I took it as game with composition, light and photographic material.00:02:42.043
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- This works refers to the medium of photography,00:02:48.358
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- which is something I have dealt with in my previous work.00:02:55.704
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- Directed and edited by Erik Sykora.00:02:59.176
nejabstraktnejsi mi pripada reportaz samotna – nebyl by tam nejaky celkovy zaber?
suhlasim
this is totally out of my scope…have nothing to say.