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guide to documenta documenta 13 - A light but relentless breeze, thanks to British artist Ryan Gander, blows from the Fridericianum in Kassel, one of 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.

read more - Kassel's history and Germany's are unavoidable at Documenta 13, which opened on Saturday. The show fills the city, from the stop to Karlsaue park, from Kassel's museums to the theatres and cinemas, from houses to hotel ballrooms. Documenta happens every five-years, lasts 100 days, and has 200 artists. You could be also lured 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.

documenta 13 - Tacita Dean has had the mountains 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. 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 think, high time: geological time, the flash of a life, a passing thought. "I'll just continue till I get it right," sings Tammy Wynette, in a snatch of song by Ceal Floyer. Again and again Wynette sings the phrase. Inside a nearby room hang still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, among a number 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 exactly the same thing, but always making it new. Documenta is stuffed with such interruptions: new and ancient things, the living as well as the dead, mysteries and miseries.