9 days until dOCUMENTA (13) – Concepts, Ideas, Projects

01.06.2012

The world of contemporary art has come together that summer for dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel. As part of an introductory overview, Scharf addressed the process of organizing the exhibition and the curatorial concept of dOCUMENTA (13) as it has developed on site in Kassel. “Collapse and recovery” served as one of the leitmotifs for the current documenta—a motto that generally stands for the problems and conflicts of the current global era. The concepts and artistic positions that have been publicized by artistic director Carolin Christov-Bakargiev leading up to the exhibition are the subject of the lecture. For example, the artist group AND AND AND examined the role of art from the perspective of social and political discussions. Examples such as the biography of artist Alighieri Boetti and his relation to Kabul, the Argentine comet El Tacco, and the bronze tree by the Arte Povera artist Giuseppe Penone already made clear that dOCUMENTA (13) pursued a path of poetic thinking, which has also been carried through the actual exhibition in Kassel.

A cooperation between BDK-Hessen and the Frankfurter Kunstverein.

3 Euro, free for BDK members and members of the Frankfurter Kunstvereins