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guide to documenta read more - A light but relentless breeze, courtesy of British artist Ryan Gander, blows from the Fridericianum in Kassel, one of many world's oldest museums. Three small sculptures by Julio Gonzáles, first shown at the second Documenta show in 1959, stand in the draught. It is the wind of history, an aura of uncertainty and impermanence. We are blown about.

documenta 13 - Kassel's history and Germany's are unavoidable at Documenta 13, which opened on Saturday. The show fills the town, from the stop to Karlsaue park, from Kassel's museums to its theatres and cinemas, from houses to hotel ballrooms. Documenta occurs every 5 years, lasts 100 days, and features 200 artists. You might be also lured to travel further: to Kabul, where an Afghan outpost of the exhibition continues; or to Alexandria, Cairo and Banff, where more related events consider place.

documenta 13 - Tacita Dean has taken the forest of Afghanistan to Kassel, filling a former banking hall with enormous, beautiful blackboard drawings. Some are near-empty, just turbid blackness; other people are full of moiling rapids and rushing rivers. You will find sunlit mountaintops, dusty avalanches, chalky wipe-outs. The six panels really are a type of storyboard, an evocation of the elsewhere. Dean's drawings are, I believe, high time: geological time, the flash of a life, a passing thought. "I'll just keep on till I get it right," sings Tammy Wynette, in the snatch of song by Ceal Floyer. Repeatedly Wynette sings the saying. In the nearby room hang still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, among some of the vessels and objects he painted and repainted, year after year, in his dusty room in Bologna. Morandi was always doing the same, but always which makes it new. Documenta is filled with such interruptions: new and ancient things, the living as well as the dead, mysteries and miseries.