Tomáš Tichý Tomáš Tichý

Lorenzini's Pool

The metaphor of the global fears that we all have in ourselves, whether we want it or not. The concept of Lorenzini's ampoule transmitted to the geopolitical plane.

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Framed 69 × 58 cm
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Wooden frame with museum-grade UV acrylic glazing, made in the Czech Republic. Ready to hang.

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Tomáš Tichý

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Tomáš Tichý

Tomáš Tichý (b. Work: Lorenzini's Pool, 2022, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 180 x 150 cm

The author seeks and finds new possibilities of how to capture the instability and transience of consumer visuality through the static image and its expression innovation and how to reveal its numerous subliminal messages. It points to the mistakes in the matrix that demasses the other side of the retouched world. The painting foundation of Tomáš Tichý is in many ways polemical. In his work he applies critical procedures and ethical principles, whose background presents certain contradictory features of social status quo. His painting view can be described as diagnostic. Lorenzini's pool extends the advertising principles of unambiguous functional visuality into an ambiguous image of spreading voltage and restlessness. The combination of disparate elements (swimming pool, curtain, bouquet, atomic mushroom) creates a perfectly acting, film -dreaming reality.

Petr Vaňous

About the work

Tomáš Tichý for 100pcs

I am interested in the balance between painting form and content. I believe that there may be a balance where even topics that are heavier can be processed in an attractive visual form.

The image is called Lorenzini's pool, and it is a metaphor of the global fears that we all have in ourselves, whether we want it or not. Lorenzini was a natural science who discovered that sharks had a special organ in the muzzle (named after him), the so -called Lorenzini's ampoule. Through electromagnetic waves, the shark recognizes when the prey is afraid and the shark attacks only when they fear the prey. And this is something that captivated me even in the context of today's war events. Thus, this concept was connected, which is then exaggeratedly transferred to the geopolitical level.

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Lorenzini's Pool (click to enlarge)

A look inside the studio

Photos from the signing of the first pieces of the edition.

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How edition numbering and pre-sales work

Every edition has a fixed print run. Every piece is numbered and signed by hand. During a pre-sale you choose your print number; after the pre-sale ends, numbers are assigned in order of purchase. Details are on the Edition sizes page.