Jiří Thýn: From Now On Everything Will Be Beautiful

The book From Now On Everything Will Be Beautiful is the first monographic publication by Jiří Thýn, the most prominent representative of the post-conceptual wave in Czech art photography of the 21st century. It charts his responses to the inflation of technical images and traces his gradual departure from the narrative nature of the photographic image to an exploration of photography as a means of a contemplative and immediate creative act. Thýn often uses existing photographs in his work and shifts their meaning through his interventions. As part of the monograph, he was invited to recycle his own photographs, applying his own creative methods. 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 a communication between images that have come together from distant positions in time, in which previously unseen, electrifying encounters can occur.