JIRI THYN From Now On Everything Will Be Beautiful

From Now On Everything Will Be Beautiful is the first monographic book publication of Jiří Thýn, the most prominent artist figure of the post-conceptual wave in Czech photography of the 21st century. It maps his responses to the inflation of technical images and traces his gradual shift away from the narrative nature of the photographic medium to an exploration of photography as a means of contemplative and immediate creative action.   In the past, Thýn has reused existing photographs, shifting their meaning through his interventions. This time he was invited to recycle his own images. For this purpose, together with graphic designer… Read more

From Now On Everything Will Be Beautiful is the first monographic book publication of Jiří Thýn, the most prominent artist figure of the post-conceptual wave in Czech photography of the 21st century. It maps his responses to the inflation of technical images and traces his gradual shift away from the narrative nature of the photographic medium to an exploration of photography as a means of contemplative and immediate creative action.

 

In the past, Thýn has reused existing photographs, shifting their meaning through his interventions. This time he was invited to recycle his own images. For this purpose, together with graphic designer Adéla Svobodová, he selected and arranged the reproductions as a non-verbal structure in which the past is viewed through contemporary eyes – as communication between images that have come together from different times, which can lead to previously unseen, electrifying encounters.

206 pages, 17 x 22 cm, hardcover, Spector Books (Leipzig).