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self-help guide to documenta 
[http://newartnetwork.net/documenta/ documenta 13] - A light but relentless breeze, courtesy of British artist Ryan Gander, blows with the Fridericianum in Kassel, among the world's oldest museums. Three small sculptures by Julio Gonzáles, first shown on the second Documenta show in 1959, stand in the draught. It is the wind of history, an air of uncertainty and impermanence. We have been blown about.

[http://newartnetwork.net/documenta/ read more] - Kassel's background and Germany's are unavoidable at Documenta 13, which opened on Saturday. The show fills town, from your place to Karlsaue park, from Kassel's museums to its theatres and cinemas, from houses to hotel ballrooms. Documenta happens every five years, lasts 100 days, featuring 200 artists. You could be tempted to travel further: to Kabul, where an Afghan outpost with the exhibition continues; or to Alexandria, Cairo and Banff, where more related events are taking place.

[http://newartnetwork.net/documenta/ read more] - Tacita Dean has taken the lake of Afghanistan to Kassel, filling an early banking hall with enormous, beautiful blackboard drawings. Some are near-empty, just turbid blackness; other medication is full of moiling rapids and rushing rivers. There are sunlit mountaintops, dusty avalanches, chalky wipe-outs. The six panels really are a sort of storyboard, an evocation of an elsewhere. Dean's drawings are, I do believe, high time: geological time, the flash of a life, a passing thought.
"I'll just continue till I recieve it right," sings Tammy Wynette, in the snatch of song by Ceal Floyer. Repeatedly 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 the same thing, but always making it new. Documenta is stuffed with such interruptions: new and ancient things, the living and also the dead, mysteries and miseries.