Jiří Thýn: Shape, Work and Two Fat Bellies
Jiří Thýn: Shape, Work and Two Fat Bellies
Jiří Thýn: Shape, Work and Two Fat Bellies
Jiří Thýn: Shape, Work and Two Fat Bellies
Jiří Thýn: Shape, Work and Two Fat Bellies
Jiří Thýn: Shape, Work and Two Fat Bellies
Jiří Thýn: Shape, Work and Two Fat Bellies

Jiří Thýn: Shape, Work and Two Fat Bellies

Jiří Thýn is considered one the most inspiring Czech photographers of the 21st century, both at home as well as abroad. The interconnection between the local and global reaches back to Czech photography from the early 20th century and endures until today, as reflected in the works of Czech photographers such as Drtikol, Funke, Rössler, Tmej, Hák, Koudelka, Tichý and Othová. Thýn draws on Czech photographic history in his own way, producing work that corresponds to new technological conditions. He is united with the avant-garde in his affinity for montage, cutting and glueing, as did Štyrský, and progressing in an equally classical way. Thýn’s still-lifes and flowers connect him with Sudek and the care that Thýn devotes to the dramaturgy of the exhibition and to each detail of the display has much in common with Svoboda’s work. Although Thýn is considered formal (to avoid the word conceptual) in his precison, his new project is not lacking in poeticism. It is even more intuitive and emotional. The colorful, multi-layered montage emerges from the motif of bellies. It emerges from them in the same way as emotion emerges from the belly. In this particular case, from the belly of Alina Szapocznikow.

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