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self-help guide to documenta newartnetwork.net/documenta - A mild 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 it the draught. Oahu is the wind of history, an aura of uncertainty and impermanence. We're blown about.

documenta 13 - Kassel's background Germany's are unavoidable at Documenta 13, which opened on Saturday. The show fills the city, from your train station 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, and features 200 artists. You could be also tempted to travel further: to Kabul, where an Afghan outpost with the exhibition continues; or Alexandria, Cairo and Banff, where more related events take place.

read more - Tacita Dean has had the forest of Afghanistan to Kassel, filling a former banking hall with enormous, beautiful blackboard drawings. Some are near-empty, just turbid blackness; other medication is filled with 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, about time: geological time, the flash of your life, a passing thought. "I'll just continue till I recieve it right," sings Tammy Wynette, in the snatch of song by Ceal Floyer. Over and over Wynette sings the phrase. In a nearby room hang still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, among a few of the vessels and objects he painted and repainted, year after year, in his dusty room in Bologna. Morandi was always doing exactly the same thing, but always rendering it new. Documenta is stuffed with such interruptions: new and ancient things, the living and the dead, mysteries and miseries.