FROM NOW ON EVERYTHING WILL BE BEAUTIFUL by Jiří Thýn
チェコ人ビジュアルアーティスト、イジー・ティン(Jiří Thýn)の作品集。
21世紀のチェコ写真界におけるポスト・コンセプチュアル・ウェーブにおいて最も知られるアーティストの一人である作者の初作品集。写真という媒体の物語性の探究から、瞑想的かつ即時的な創作の手段として用いる写真の追究へと徐々にシフトしていく軌跡を辿る。これまでは、既存の写真を再利用し介入することでその意味を変化させてきた。本作では、自身が撮影した写真を再生させ、循環させる。グラフィックデザイナーのアデラ・スヴォボドヴァ(Adéla Svobodová)とともに、作品の複製から選び、アレンジした。それは、過去を現代の目を通して見る非言語的な構造として在り、異なる時から集まったイメージ同士のコミュニケーションとして、以前には見られなかった衝撃的な出会いに繋がっていくのである。
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.
Jiří Thýn (b. 1977 in Prague) is a Czech artist who works in, and with, the medium of photography. Jiří Ptáček (b. 1975 in Prague) is an independent curator and art columnist. He has collaborated on dozens of exhibitions of Czech artists in both Czech and Slovak galleries. Between 2012 and 2020, he was the curator of Fotograf Gallery in Prague.