dOCUMENTA (13)

dOCUMENTA (13)

Walking through the Fridericianum

The central building of the documenta exhibition is dominated by war and violence. Head Christov-Bakargiev gathered artifacts herald the destruction of anger - from six millennia.

No documentation without Fridericianum: The second after the castle in Dessau Wörlitz purely classical building in Germany is the headquarters of the large exhibition in Kassel. A Tradition: When completed in 1779 it housed the royal art collection - one of the first public museums in the European continent.

It tied documenta-founder Arnold Bode in 1955: He put it in World War II largely destroyed buildings temporarily repaired to its premises art exhibit. They were not at the premiere hung on the wall, but freely around the room - even the paintings that you anbrachte between iron rods.

War in general and single-case

In the checkered history of the house traditionally react many documenta participant.Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (CCB) is no exception: it has in its exhibition included several works that take on war and destruction in general and on the individual case of the Fridericianum reference.

Impressions of the exhibition at the Fridericianum

Empty ground floor with a slight breeze

The falls in this documenta particularly because CCB marks the beginning of the tour with a bold anti-climax: The ground floor of the sprawling three-winged building remains virtually untapped. The left wing Ryan Gander is only a "light breeze" from the Ceal Floyer does sound for the chorus of a soul songs. Otherwise, a gaping void.

Compared with the right wing are three small abstract sculptures of the Spaniard Julio González from the 1930s - a throwback to the first documentation on which they were shown - easily overlooked in the vast hall. In the subsequent Cabinet runs a video of Khaled Hourani on the first exhibition of Picasso's painting in Palestine, also a nod to the origins of the mammoth show.

The Brain shows CCBs gyri

In contrast to the wasteful use of open spaces in the two wings there in the middle full of urge Enge: The Rotunda, CCB crammed with countless works. They called the semicircular space " The Brain ", to allow for quasi insight into their convolutions.

As expected, it comes here to be very confusing: room dividers and cabinets disorientate them. Likewise, the hodgepodge of works presented to follow the no thematic connection seems - at best are a few guiding principles identified.

Lee Miller in Hitler's bathtub bathing

The most prominent are undoubtedly war and violence: They shape about half of the collected works. One side of the central room divider pave photographs Lee Miller recorded in 1945 in Hitler's Munich's private apartment. Which are not without piquancy: Miller took Hitler's desk space and bathed in his tub. They also stole small items, including a powder-box, the Eva Braun should have heard - and which can be seen here.

The clearest signs of violence, exposure to some objects from the Lebanese National Museum in Beirut are recognizable: they were damaged during the civil war by shelling or melted into unidentifiable shapes.

Protection against Taliban by painting

Similar tracks shows a photograph of the Cambodian Vandy Rattana: A bomb crater from the time of the Vietnam War has been filled with rain water. Next to it a historical ink drawing showing a Vietcong fighter.

Conflicts of recent times are also present: a nondescript landscape image of Afghans Mohammad Yusuf Asefi has a dramatic genesis story. With such innocuous scenes about the artist painted figurative paintings from the National Gallery in Kabul, to protect them from being destroyed by Taliban.

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