RAPHAEL DANKE & MIROSLAV TICHY – CLICK, CLICK
2014-02-03The exhibition’s title refers to the “Click, Click” that eccentric, multimillionaire and surrealist Edward William Frank James would eject in order to mark a specific moment he wanted to capture in his memory.
Raphael Danke became aware of his connection to Tichy after seeing one of his own works installed in proximity to a photograph of Tichy’s at a collector’s house and thus developed the exhibition at VAN HORN. Both artists deal with the quality of destruction and beauty. Instead of wanting to create a ‘perfect image’, they are concerned with the process of seeing and capturing an impression which does not please the eye by means of technical perfection. Thematically as well as technically, the parallels between Tichy and Danke are obvious, suggesting a joint exhibition.
Danke utilises a mobile phone’s camera for his photographs while Tichy uses inferior devices fashioned from everyday findings. This often leads to under- or overexposure and blurry motifs. By exposing pages from magazines, Danke destroys the given image in its original form. Tichy’s work, however, is subject to a rather inevitable type of destruction: as he never intended to present his photographs in art exhibitions, he treated them carelessly, the result of which are stains and scratches, which account for the charming and poetic character of his work.
Exhibition runs through to February 28th, 2014
VAN HORN
Ackerstr. 99
40233
Düsseldorf
Germany
