Atenas en Kassel, Documenta 14
documenta 14 has been going … strong in Athens for a while now, and moves on to home base Kassel soon — and one of the … big installations there is slated to be Marta Minujín’s The Parthenon of Books (a recreation of her 1983 installation El Partenón de libros), featuring: «up to 100,000 books from all over the world which are now in legal circulation again after years of prohibition, or are allowed in some countries and prohibited elsewhere»; you can see many of the titles here, for example.
It looks — work in progress — like this: A nice idea — including the tipping of the monument and getting the books in circulation when it’s done — but I wish it weren’t quite so hideous. (And recall also Enrique Vila-Matas documenta-novel, The Illogic of Kassel.)
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