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Delivered Flowers, ICA, London, 2005
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| Delivered Flowers |
| Contemporary art seems to be tainted by an ideological anesthesia. Is it possible to awaken it through standard ideas and gestures? How revolutionary or how simple should they are in order to peel off the deceptive layers of this decadence? Poetry can be the answer, as its essence is to keep the echo between real and imaginary, familiar and unknown, routine and risk. Delivered Flowers by Thomas Kratz is such an exercise of exclusive beauty and also a test of sensibility. The exhibition director of the ICA will receive weekly a bunch of flowers, as invitation to a complete aesthetic experience. Given that reality is the best appearance of contemporary art, as art has begun to produce life itself, ad nauseam, is it still possible to distinguish them? How can one negotiate between two almost identical spaces, which lost their diferentia specifica? The flowers offer the necessary silence for these interrogations to have an echo.
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Simona Nastac
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