Original artwork description:

84x64 cm | Filler, oak panel, flowers

The top edge of the panel has holes to hold six colourful flowers. Small water containers attached to the flowers (not included) on the back are included. When the work is exhibited, the flowers can be left to dry, watered, and replaced as desired.

The Real Thing series features works with an appendix placed on top of the work or close to it. This object is exterior to the image plane, the illusionary "window" in the picture, but is still an intrinsic part of the whole. It connects or makes visible the two dimensions of an artwork - its inner logic and its relation to its surroundings.
The title references the famous Coca-Cola campaign and Immanuel Kant's notion of the thing in itself. It means that subjects can only experience the phenomena as they present themselves through perception. It is always fundamentally different from what the things are outside language boundaries - in themselves.

Materials used:

Filler (coarse and fine) in oak frame

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