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[http://newartnetwork.net/documenta/ newartnetwork.net/documenta] - A mild but relentless breeze, thanks to British artist Ryan Gander, blows through the Fridericianum in Kassel, among the world's oldest museums. Three small sculptures by Julio Gonzáles, first shown at the second Documenta show in 1959, stand it the draught. It is the wind of history, an air of uncertainty and impermanence. We are blown about.

[http://newartnetwork.net/documenta/ documenta 13] - Kassel's background and 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 the theatres and cinemas, from houses to hotel ballrooms. Documenta takes place every five years, lasts 100 days, and features 200 artists. You could be also tempted to travel further: to Kabul, where an Afghan outpost of the exhibition continues; or Alexandria, Cairo and Banff, where more related events are taking place.

[http://newartnetwork.net/documenta/ documenta 13] - Tacita Dean has taken the mountains of Afghanistan to Kassel, filling a former banking hall with enormous, beautiful blackboard drawings. Some are near-empty, just turbid blackness; other people are filled up with moiling rapids and rushing rivers. You can find sunlit mountaintops, dusty avalanches, chalky wipe-outs. The six panels certainly are a type of storyboard, an evocation of the elsewhere. Dean's drawings are, I do believe, time: geological time, the flash of a life, a passing thought.
"I'll just continue till I get it right," sings Tammy Wynette, inside a snatch of song by Ceal Floyer. Over and over Wynette sings the words. In the nearby room hang still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, among a number of the vessels and objects he painted and repainted, year after year, as part of his dusty room in Bologna. Morandi was always doing exactly the same thing, but always which makes it new. Documenta is stuffed with such interruptions: new and ancient things, the living and also the dead, mysteries and miseries.

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