Kosen Ohtsubo and Christian Kōun Alborz Oldham combine an unconventional exploration of ikebana - the art of flower arranging - and advocacy for each other's practice. By working with living materials, the fragile sculptures confront us with questions of being in and with the world, processes of decay, fleeting beauty and the impossibility of human control.
With "Flower Planet", the Kunstverein München presents two artists in dialog who, through their work with materials that surround us every day and the creation of fragile sculptures, view the earth as a living entity and not as a territory to be owned. This understanding of ecology and conceptual art practice is an urgent component in the current state of our (surrounding) world.
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