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self-help guide to documenta documenta 13 - A mild but relentless breeze, due 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 on the second Documenta show in 1959, stay at home the draught. Oahu is the wind of history, an aura of uncertainty and impermanence. We are blown about.

read more - Kassel's background 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 the theatres and cinemas, from houses to hotel ballrooms. Documenta happens every 5 years, lasts 100 days, and features 200 artists. You might be tempted to travel further: to Kabul, where an Afghan outpost from the exhibition continues; or to Alexandria, Cairo and Banff, where more related events consider place.

documenta 13 - Tacita Dean has had the forest of Afghanistan to Kassel, filling an early banking hall with enormous, beautiful blackboard drawings. Some are near-empty, just turbid blackness; others are filled up with moiling rapids and rushing rivers. There are 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 do believe, high time: geological time, the flash of the life, a passing thought. "I'll just keep on till I get it right," sings Tammy Wynette, inside a snatch of song by Ceal Floyer. Again and again Wynette sings the words. In the nearby room hang still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, among some of the vessels and objects he painted and repainted, every year, in the dusty room in Bologna. Morandi was always doing exactly the same thing, but always which makes it new. Documenta is full of such interruptions: new and ancient things, the living and the dead, mysteries and miseries.