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guide to documenta newartnetwork.net/documenta - A gentle but relentless breeze, courtesy of British artist Ryan Gander, blows through the Fridericianum in Kassel, among 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's the wind of history, an aura of uncertainty and impermanence. We have been blown about.

documenta 13 - Kassel's background and Germany's are unavoidable at Documenta 13, which opened on Saturday. The show fills town, from your train station to Karlsaue park, from Kassel's museums to its theatres and cinemas, from houses to hotel ballrooms. Documenta occurs every five 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 Alexandria, Cairo and Banff, where more related events consider place.

read more - Tacita Dean has taken 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 filled up with moiling rapids and rushing rivers. There are sunlit mountaintops, dusty avalanches, chalky wipe-outs. The six panels are a kind of storyboard, an evocation of an elsewhere. Dean's drawings are, I think, high time: geological time, the flash of your life, a passing thought. "I'll just continue till I recieve it right," sings Tammy Wynette, in the snatch of song by Ceal Floyer. Repeatedly Wynette sings the phrase. Inside a nearby room hang still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, among a few of the vessels and objects he painted and repainted, every year, as part of his dusty room in Bologna. Morandi was always doing exactly the same thing, but always rendering it new. Documenta is stuffed with such interruptions: new and ancient things, the living as well as the dead, mysteries and miseries.