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help guide to documenta read more - A light but relentless breeze, thanks to 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 on the second Documenta show in 1959, stand it the draught. Oahu is the wind of history, an aura of uncertainty and impermanence. We're blown about.

read more - Kassel's background Germany's are unavoidable at Documenta 13, which opened on Saturday. The show fills town, from the train station 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 features 200 artists. You might even be influenced to travel further: to Kabul, where an Afghan outpost of the exhibition continues; or Alexandria, Cairo and Banff, where more related events take place.

read more - Tacita Dean has had the mountains of Afghanistan to Kassel, filling an early banking hall with enormous, beautiful blackboard drawings. Some are near-empty, just turbid blackness; other medication is filled with moiling rapids and rushing rivers. You can find sunlit mountaintops, dusty avalanches, chalky wipe-outs. The six panels are a kind of storyboard, an evocation of your elsewhere. Dean's drawings are, I do believe, time: geological time, the flash of the life, a passing thought. "I'll just continue till I buy it right," sings Tammy Wynette, inside a snatch of song by Ceal Floyer. Over and over Wynette sings the words. In a nearby room hang still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, among some of the vessels and objects he painted and repainted, year after year, in the dusty room in Bologna. Morandi was always doing exactly the same thing, but always rendering it new. Documenta is filled with such interruptions: new and ancient things, the living and the dead, mysteries and miseries.