Miroslav Tichy: Kunsthaus Zurich.(Critical Essay) From: Artforum International | Date: October 1, 2005| Author: Schwabsky, Barry | COPYRIGHT 2005 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

"Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation." Thus the oftquoted words of Henri Cartier-Bresson, emblazoned on a wall at the Kunsthaus Zurich to open an exhibition on Cartier-Bresson and Alberto Giacometti that, as it happened, was running concurrently with this first retrospective of much-lesser-known photographer Miroslav Tichy. By the Frenchman's definition, Tichy's work is closer to drawing, but this merely underlines the famous aphorism's limitations.