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Tarzan Retired (Roman Buxbaum, CH 2004) |
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{mosimage} | Samstag | | 24.01.2009 | | | 16.45
| | | CinemaxX 3 |
Farbe | 32 min | OmU
| | Dieser Film läuft im Rahmen des Progammpunkts Fotografie 4 | | | | “People ask me, what are you, Mr. Tichý? Are you a painter, a sculptor or a writer? I reply: You know, what I am? I am Tarzan retired” offers Miroslav Tichý the over 80-years-old Czech painter, photographer and master at the art of living, in the film of the same name- Tarzan Retired- as a description of himself. Miroslav Tichý attended the academy of arts in Prague during the late 1940s and was said to be a talented painter and drawer. After the communists’ coming into power he spent eight years in prisons and psychiatric institutions. After that he turned into a maverick and adopted an attitude of being a homeless and vagabond. When losing his studio, photography was his only concern . He constructed cameras himself, with which he went out almost daily searching for motifs. He primarily focused on photographing women, young girls sunbathing or in parks or elder women in the marketplace or on the streets. His preference of women and their bodies is regarded as voyeurism by some people and as being an homage to femininity by others. He himself says that he only exhibits what is real. He develops the blurred and cloudy photographs himself. He glues the pictures on to paperboard mostly and sometimes uses markers to adds colourful frames. Tich_’s photographs lately were exhibited at Centre George Pompidou, Paris and at the Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt. In the film, Roman Buxbaum pulls back the curtain from behind which a philosophising, charming, long-haired, unshaved artist emerges, one who tends toward self-mockery and openness, speaking with a nonchalant attitude about not only himself and his work as an artist but also about the great problems and questions of art. |
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