Jiří Thýn: From Now On Everything Will Be Beautiful
Jiří Thýn/Adéla Svobodová/Jiří Ptáček

206 pages
130 b/w and color illustrations
thread-sewn hardcover

Leipzig July, 2024
ISBN: 9783959058476

Width: 17 cm
Length: 22 cm

Language(s): English

Editor
Jiří Thýn, Adéla Svobodová, Jiří Ptáček

Designer
Adéla Svobodová

Text
Jiří Ptáček

Co-publisher
ArtMap

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.