Jiří Thýn
Consciousness as a Fundamental Attribute I,II
28th of August - 11th of October 2014
hunt kastner gallery
Bořivojova 85, Praha 3
Curator: Pavel Vančát
Admission: free
Open: mon-sun closed, tue-fri 1 p.m. - 6 p.m., sat 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.
An excerpt from curator's note:
"Jiří Thýn (1977) studied at the Academy of Arts, Design and Architecture in Prague (1999-2005) with an internship at the Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Vladimir Skrepl (2003) and at TAIK Helsinki (2003). His work crosses the borderlines of photography, video, installation and interventions in public spaces. After many years of gradually refining his own "conceptual lyricism", capturing of reality on the background of the modernist canon. After his spring exhibition at Atelier Josefa Sudka the installation at hunt kastner does attempt to identify further and deeper something which we see only subconsciously in the images but something which is definitely insinuated and discomforting.
Thýn acts here partly as a destroyer and partly as a stylist, working with the arsenal of contemporary visuality (often with the visuality of the contemporary art world itself) in a way that arises from his own subconscious. The lure which is an essential component of many of Thýn's works, is questioned and disrupted in the automatic gestures of the cutting knife. This unconscious automatism, contrasting to Thýn's usual technical brilliance, re-raises questions about the nature of what he works with and fights again. The first mythical cut, which dismantled the old image apart into the sum of elements, was carried out about a century ago and radically changed our reading of images. Thýn's returning to that moment, in a specific position that combines analysis with dreamy nostalgia."
Thýn acts here partly as a destroyer and partly as a stylist, working with the arsenal of contemporary visuality (often with the visuality of the contemporary art world itself) in a way that arises from his own subconscious. The lure which is an essential component of many of Thýn's works, is questioned and disrupted in the automatic gestures of the cutting knife. This unconscious automatism, contrasting to Thýn's usual technical brilliance, re-raises questions about the nature of what he works with and fights again. The first mythical cut, which dismantled the old image apart into the sum of elements, was carried out about a century ago and radically changed our reading of images. Thýn's returning to that moment, in a specific position that combines analysis with dreamy nostalgia."
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