Bouquet "Torn Green"
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Green hydrangeas with a pink edge, packed as tight as a crowd. Named after the Paris artists who tore posters off the walls and hung what was left.
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Description
A green hydrangea bouquet and nothing else. What look like petals are in fact sepals, and each head is dozens of small flowers pressed together, green as an unripe apple and rimmed in pink.
The botanical name, hydrangea, comes from the Greek for water and vessel, after the shape of its seed capsules. The French never took to it: in France the flower is still the hortensia.
In February 1949, Jacques Villeglé and Raymond Hains took long strips of concert posters from a hoarding near La Coupole in Montparnasse. Strangers had already torn them. The title of the piece, Ach Alma Manetro, came out of the surviving letters: "Ach" from Bach, "Alma" from the concert venue nearby. In 1959 Villeglé laid torn posters across a studio floor and let visitors walk on them. A year later the Nouveaux Réalistes formed in Paris around the critic Pierre Restany, and the torn poster was art. This bouquet works the same way. Nothing is smoothed over; the pink edge is the old colour showing through.
Not one for the sideboard. It wants a white wall with nothing else on it, a staircase, a shopfront on its opening day. For a first solo show, a studio lease signed, the morning after you quit.
Delivered in Paris, Monday to Saturday; delivery is free from €100.
