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guide to documenta documenta 13 - A light but relentless breeze, courtesy of British artist Ryan Gander, blows through the Fridericianum in Kassel, one of many world's oldest museums. Three small sculptures by Julio Gonzáles, first shown in the second Documenta show in 1959, stay at home the draught. It is the wind of history, an aura of uncertainty and impermanence. We're 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 takes place every five years, lasts 100 days, and features 200 artists. You may even be tempted to travel further: to Kabul, where an Afghan outpost from the exhibition continues; in order to Alexandria, Cairo and Banff, where more related events consider place.

documenta 13 - Tacita Dean has taken the lake of Afghanistan to Kassel, filling a former banking hall with enormous, beautiful blackboard drawings. Some are near-empty, just turbid blackness; other people are filled up with moiling rapids and rushing rivers. You can find sunlit mountaintops, dusty avalanches, chalky wipe-outs. The six panels are a sort of storyboard, an evocation of the elsewhere. Dean's drawings are, I think, time: geological time, the flash of your life, a passing thought. "I'll just carry on till I get it right," sings Tammy Wynette, inside a snatch of song by Ceal Floyer. Over and over Wynette sings the saying. In the nearby room hang still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, among a few 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 the same, but always making it new. Documenta is stuffed with such interruptions: new and ancient things, the living and also the dead, mysteries and miseries.