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[http://newartnetwork.net/documenta/ review here] - A gentle but relentless breeze, courtesy of British artist Ryan Gander, blows through the Fridericianum in Kassel, one of many world's oldest museums. Three small sculptures by Julio Gonzáles, first shown in the second Documenta show in 1959, stay at home the draught. It is the wind of history, an air of uncertainty and impermanence. We're blown about.

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

[http://newartnetwork.net/documenta/ documenta 13] - Tacita Dean has had the lake of Afghanistan to Kassel, filling a former banking hall with enormous, beautiful blackboard drawings. Some are near-empty, just turbid blackness; other medication is full of moiling rapids and rushing rivers. You can find sunlit mountaintops, dusty avalanches, chalky wipe-outs. The six panels are a type of storyboard, an evocation of your elsewhere. Dean's drawings are, I think, high time: geological time, the flash of your life, a passing thought.
"I'll just carry on till I buy it right," sings Tammy Wynette, inside a 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 in year out, as part of his dusty room in Bologna. Morandi was always doing the same thing, but always making it new. Documenta is full of such interruptions: new and ancient things, the living and the dead, mysteries and miseries.

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