More precisely, dOCUMENTA-13. It is the writing of the name of one of the most prestigious parades in the world of contemporary art, with the filing of its artistic director Carolyn Cristo Bakardzhiev, this year should be considered correct

One of the exhibits of the "Documents-13": installation of "Leaves of Grass," Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer . Source: Today in Kassel, Germany to the public an exhibition of "Document" - one of the world's most prestigious events in the field of contemporary art. The first "Document" was held in 1955 at the initiative of the German artist and curator Arnold Bode (Arnold Bode) in the framework, as it may seem, the Federal Horticultural Exhibition, but the show quickly became a landmark, and in contrast to the Venice Biennale , which is committed to please the audience, got a reputation as an intellectual and experimental.

This year the exhibition an ideal fit this definition, thanks to its art director Carolyn Cristo Bakardzhiev, which attracted the participation in it, not only artists, but also professional scientists and was able to surprise even the worldly-wise art critics unconventional approach to the event. I must say that it resembled a speech at the opening performance, and has caused confusion and outrage among some of those present. The traditional sites "Documents" at this time added a number of new, besides, to overcome the traditional boundaries of understanding and contemplation of art designed to show additional sites in Canada, Egypt and Afghanistan (the latter appeared as part of the project on the theme of war and destruction, as well as the famous Italian Alighieri Boetti (Alighiero Boetti)).

Among the participants of the current" Documents "is the acknowledged masters such as Tasita Dean (Tacita Dean) and William Kentridge (William Kentridge), and there are new names. According to Christo-Bakardzhiev, her goal was to enhance the look and scope of the exhibition of visual arts to the state of culture in general - from quantum physics to historical artifacts. Born in the USA with the curator of the Bulgarian-Italian roots around trying to move away from the familiar category and the opening of the exhibition said that its concept is the absence of the concept itself, which took the place of "holistic approach". But, nevertheless, the curator of the exhibition marked the main vectors: this topic intention and realization, things and objects, as an important theme is the healing of an injury - that is very symbolic for the event, which was intended to revive interest in contemporary art and to his post-war Germany, and well as to revive the shattered to the ground bombing of Kassel.

Originally the show was modest in size, but today's budget is 25 million euros, and the art of a huge wave covers the entire city, including parks, cinemas and railway station as, according to the Cristo Bakardzhiev, "exploded the museum." This exhibition - one of the four major European events dedicated to contemporary art (the other - the Venice Biennale, "ArtBazel" and the Paris exhibition "Monument»).

Cassel is famous for its love of the avant-garde and superavangardu. This iconic place in the world of art events, such as planting 7000 oaks Joseph Beuys, and every decade in the art of fashion in the world among advanced minds dictates it, "Document". It is expected that this year's exhibition will be visited 750,000 people, several times larger than the population of Kassel (195,000 inhabitants).

Generally a person's ability to recreate the world and reinvent it - one of the those that permeate the entire current exhibition, and this explains in part the presence of the physicists, biologists, anthropologists, and even a hypnotherapist. According to Christo-Bakardzhiev, the boundary between art and non-art is becoming less significant and tangible, and, according to one of the scientists, what is represented on his bench and looks like a science experiment, really just in a different way to look at the world .

about unity and kinship of all these diverse phenomena says installation "Brain", which is actually room in the palace of the XVIII century Fridericianum filled to overflowing with works of art, a variety of objects and documents - an analogy that, according to the curator, is in her own mind (and I suppose that every man in the head at all). Here you can see, for example, a painting by Giorgio Morandi (Giorgio Morandi), and near - real objects depicted on it, photos of artist Lee Miller (Lee Miller), takes a bath in the former headquarters of Hitler in Munich, as well as a number of subjects, she found there, such as a towel with the initials of the Fuhrer and Eva Braun's powder compact, and much more.

However bold the curator went on, and not only decided to erase the boundaries between science and art, but also between culture and nature , offering to review a modern fair anthropocentric world view. Itself is the curator of rare breaks up with his little shaggy mongrel Darcy wondered how dogs perceive the arts as well as allocated to them at the time of this exhibition are a fleet of Kassel. Moreover, the participants are of the American artist Amy Belkin (Amy Balkin), which requires UNESCO to recognize the atmosphere of the earth part of the list of world cultural heritage. This proposal was sent to its 186 countries - members of UNESCO, and visitors are encouraged to leave their signatures in support of it on special cards. However, this is only a small part of what the viewer will see in Kassel, according to tradition, "Document" will last exactly 100 days (until September 16), each of which promise to fill, in addition to exhibitions, performances, workshops and other events - a real non-art stop.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

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