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

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

read more - Tacita Dean has taken the forest of Afghanistan to Kassel, filling an early banking hall with enormous, beautiful blackboard drawings. Some are near-empty, just turbid blackness; others are filled with moiling rapids and rushing rivers. You will find sunlit mountaintops, dusty avalanches, chalky wipe-outs. The six panels are a kind of storyboard, an evocation of the elsewhere. Dean's drawings are, I do believe, about time: geological time, the flash of a life, a passing thought. "I'll just continue till I buy it right," sings Tammy Wynette, in a snatch of song by Ceal Floyer. Over and over Wynette sings the saying. Inside a nearby room hang still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, among some of the vessels and objects he painted and repainted, year in year out, in his dusty room in Bologna. Morandi was always doing exactly the same thing, but always rendering it new. Documenta is filled with such interruptions: new and ancient things, the living and also the dead, mysteries and miseries.