In
total, 650.000 paying visitors attended the fifth
platform of documenta11 in Kassel.
Nach
Schliessung der "documenta11", die vor
allem auch afrikanischen Künstlern ein Forum
bot, haben die Veranstalter eine erste Bilanz
gezogen, die hier
von RBO dokumentiert wird. Dabei gerät erneut
eine Medien-Debatte in den Brennpunkt, bei der im
Zusammenhang mit dem Terrorangriff vom 11.
September 2001 in den USA angeblich
anti-amerikanische Ressentiments dieser
bedeutenden internationalen Kunstausstellung
kritisiert wurden.
Documenta-Tagebuch
Niklas
Maak attempts on September 14, 2002, in the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to give an
overview of the critical responses, especially in
the American press: |
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After
almost four years of work and intense debate,
research, discussion, and cooperation with many
partner institutions and individuals, after four
platforms in Vienna and Berlin, New Delhi, St.
Lucia, and Lagos with over 130 international
participants and more than 10.000 visitors, the
fifth platform of Documenta11, the exhibition in
Kassel, was drawing to a close on Sunday,
September 15, 2002.
RBO is documenting here
the complete text of the organisers first balance
which also draws the attention to the fact that
the documenta received strong critics from the
media in the U.S.A., especially in context with
the terrosrist attack of September 11, 2001.
"A visit to
Documenta 11, the latest edition of Germany's
twice-a-decade exhibition of contemporary art -
or even just a quick leaf through the catalogue
for this ultra-prestigious show - serves as a
useful reminder of the deep loathing that the
farther reaches of the global left can have for
our country. Behaviors taken for granted here -
churchgoing, gun-owning, stock-buying,
lethal-injecting - can look odd, even positively
baleful, out in the wider world..."
Blake Gopnik of the
"Washington Post" |