Artists for Tichý / Tichý for Artists

The Tichy Ocean Foundation's "Artists for Tichy - Tichy for Artists" collection is based on the concept of exchange. Artists from around the world trade their works for photographs of Miroslav Tichý (1926-2011), who also initiated the idea of trading works. When the Austrian painter Arnulf Rainer visited him in Kyjov in 1992, Tichý refused to sell him any of his works, but he was not opposed to trading. These beginnings eventually grew into an extensive collection united by one common factor: All the traded works are by artists who admire Tichý's work and his attitude of avoiding public recognition and listening only to his obsession and will to create. Tichý has become an artists' artist.