Thomas Kratz

www.thomaskratz.de 

Delivered Flowers 

Contemporary art seems to be tainted by an ideological anaesthesia. Is it possible to awaken it through standard ideas and gestures? How revolutionary or how simple should they be, 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 an exercise of exclusive feelings and endless views. The artist will send weekly to the ICA exhibition director’s office a bouquet of flowers, as invitation to a complete 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 differentia specifica? The flowers offer the necessary silence for these interrogations to have an echo.