Post by pieter on Jun 8, 2007 8:33:12 GMT -7
Documenta Kassel, june 16 - september 23 2007
This year’s documenta feels a close connection to the city of Kassel and its inhabitants and would like to express this relationship. For that reason, on the evening before the opening we will not be giving an exclusive cocktail party for invited guests. Instead, the artistic direction is planning a big party for the citizens of Kassel and all those who are interested in documenta. Together with the team and the exhibition artists as well as the many art enthusiasts from all over the world who will be pouring into Kassel for the opening events, we will be celebrating the beginning of documenta 12 in the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe.
After the Landes Jugend Jazz Orchester Hessen opens the programme, and Ruth Noack and Roger M. Buergel welcome the guests, the Norwegian rock band Kaizers Orchestra will create a rollicking festival atmosphere. Then the DJ formation Cluster – pioneers of the electronic scene – will get the partygoers moving to their electronic sounds. On this evening, the Bergpark will show itself from its loveliest side, bringing the spectacle to a close with an illumination of the water gardens. The Hessischer Rundfunk has kindly agreed to organise and provide the sound for the entire event.
Following the official programme, the launch of documenta 12 will move on to Kassel’s clubs, bars and discotheques, continuing into the wee hours.
POLISH PARTICIPATION
Artur Zmijewski
Artur Zmijewski (1966) is among the most prominent figures of the current Polish art scene. Zmijewski works predominantly with video and photography. Observing human behaviour and unsettling any prevailing social and cultural consensus lie at the core of his documentary-style work. Unusual and surprising situations, usually provocatively induced by the artist himself, constitute the raw material for a body of work which blurs the divide between normal and abnormal, regulated and deregulated. In 80064, for instance, he renews the identification tattoo of an aged former prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, or in Singing Lesson 2 deaf people interpret a cantata by Bach. The work of Zmijewski, in which sick people and the elderly, physically handicapped people, religious fanatics or naked soldiers take up a prominent position, the familiar is turned inside out. Because conventional ethics and morality are parenthesised in his work, since they do not lead to knowledge and insight, his work is perceived as controversial in some circles. . In itself this is not a bad thing. A conscience should be jolted every now and again. The three-day retrospective at Argos comprises a selection of Zmijewski's most important videos and it is rather exceptional, since his work is usually presented within the context of an exhibition. Internationally, Zmijewski has exhibited widely over the last years. He represented Poland in the last Venice Biennial, and will be presenting new work at Documenta 12 in Kassel this summer.
film.onet.pl/7792,,Artur_?mijewski,osoba.html
the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=82BC889C-B723-529B-31B0944644E297F4
www.polishculture-nyc.org/zmijewski_more.htm
www.culture.pl/pl/culture/artykuly/os_zmijewski_artur
Now Polish art seems radical to me where Dutch art has become more moderate,
esthetical and petite bourgeois.
www.goethe.de/kue/bku/thm/idd/en1960039.htm
This year’s documenta feels a close connection to the city of Kassel and its inhabitants and would like to express this relationship. For that reason, on the evening before the opening we will not be giving an exclusive cocktail party for invited guests. Instead, the artistic direction is planning a big party for the citizens of Kassel and all those who are interested in documenta. Together with the team and the exhibition artists as well as the many art enthusiasts from all over the world who will be pouring into Kassel for the opening events, we will be celebrating the beginning of documenta 12 in the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe.
After the Landes Jugend Jazz Orchester Hessen opens the programme, and Ruth Noack and Roger M. Buergel welcome the guests, the Norwegian rock band Kaizers Orchestra will create a rollicking festival atmosphere. Then the DJ formation Cluster – pioneers of the electronic scene – will get the partygoers moving to their electronic sounds. On this evening, the Bergpark will show itself from its loveliest side, bringing the spectacle to a close with an illumination of the water gardens. The Hessischer Rundfunk has kindly agreed to organise and provide the sound for the entire event.
Following the official programme, the launch of documenta 12 will move on to Kassel’s clubs, bars and discotheques, continuing into the wee hours.
POLISH PARTICIPATION
Artur Zmijewski
Artur Zmijewski (1966) is among the most prominent figures of the current Polish art scene. Zmijewski works predominantly with video and photography. Observing human behaviour and unsettling any prevailing social and cultural consensus lie at the core of his documentary-style work. Unusual and surprising situations, usually provocatively induced by the artist himself, constitute the raw material for a body of work which blurs the divide between normal and abnormal, regulated and deregulated. In 80064, for instance, he renews the identification tattoo of an aged former prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp, or in Singing Lesson 2 deaf people interpret a cantata by Bach. The work of Zmijewski, in which sick people and the elderly, physically handicapped people, religious fanatics or naked soldiers take up a prominent position, the familiar is turned inside out. Because conventional ethics and morality are parenthesised in his work, since they do not lead to knowledge and insight, his work is perceived as controversial in some circles. . In itself this is not a bad thing. A conscience should be jolted every now and again. The three-day retrospective at Argos comprises a selection of Zmijewski's most important videos and it is rather exceptional, since his work is usually presented within the context of an exhibition. Internationally, Zmijewski has exhibited widely over the last years. He represented Poland in the last Venice Biennial, and will be presenting new work at Documenta 12 in Kassel this summer.
film.onet.pl/7792,,Artur_?mijewski,osoba.html
the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=82BC889C-B723-529B-31B0944644E297F4
www.polishculture-nyc.org/zmijewski_more.htm
www.culture.pl/pl/culture/artykuly/os_zmijewski_artur
Now Polish art seems radical to me where Dutch art has become more moderate,
esthetical and petite bourgeois.
www.goethe.de/kue/bku/thm/idd/en1960039.htm