Hans Ticha — A re­tro­s­pec­ti­ve at the Kunst­hal­le Ros­tock

The Kunst­hal­le Ros­tock is de­di­ca­ting a com­pre­hen­si­ve re­tro­s­pec­ti­ve to the ex­cep­tio­nal ar­tist Hans Ticha (*1940), which pres­ents his un­mist­aka­ble work in an im­pres­si­ve breadth. Ticha, known for his idio­syn­cra­tic and mo­dern vi­su­al lan­guage far re­mo­ved from so­cia­list rea­lism, is re­gard­ed as one of Ger­many’s most non-con­for­mist ar­tists. The ex­hi­bi­ti­on pres­ents a wealth of pain­tings, works on pa­per and th­ree-di­men­sio­nal works that are be­ing shown for the first time on this sca­le and in this the­ma­tic di­ver­si­ty.

Ticha’s po­li­ti­cal works are par­ti­cu­lar­ly in­flu­en­ti­al and, along­side mo­tifs re­la­ting to the beach, sport, mu­sic and dance, form the cen­tral fo­cus of the show. In a co­ope­ra­ti­ve en­dea­vour, a col­la­bo­ra­ti­on wi­th the Neu­es Mu­se­um — Staat­li­ches Mu­se­um für Kunst und De­sign Nurem­berg broa­dens the per­spec­ti­ve on the work of the ar­tist, who mo­ved to Mainz in 1990 and is still ac­ti­ve the­re. The re­tro­s­pec­ti­ve pro­vi­des a mul­ti­face­ted in­sight in­to the im­pres­si­ve oeu­vre of an ar­tist who­se works are bo­th thought-pro­vo­king and in­spi­ring in their ver­sa­ti­li­ty.