Richard Gray Gallery
875 N Michigan Ave
Suite 2503
312.642.8877
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Jan Tichy, Installation No. 7, 2009
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Oct 9, 2009 – Jan 8, 2010
Mondays–Fridays (10am–5:30pm)
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Call it populist schadenfreude, but there's something spectacular about an artist taking over a floor of the John Hancock building where an insurance firm used to reside. By arrangement of Richard Gray Gallery, Prague-born artist Jan Tichy has planted nine installations throughout this deserted space: in a cavernous room, in tucked-away offices, at the end of a long, sinister corridor. Videos or photographs are central to most of the works, but Tichy is equally a sculptor of darkness and illumination, using his projections as "time-based light sources" as often as vehicles for imagery. Circling around the subject of architecture and its relations to power, Tichy's work picks up an added charge in this unconventional setting, this momentary crack in the city's commercial structures.
