My View on the Documenta 2017

HFF everybody everywhere ! A nice Friday with the News from IMA this week ! Ipernity is still alive ! Thanks to all who stayed here patiently and to all returnees. Have a great Friday and a good weekend. , The picture shows the Orangerie in Kassel.

Please see it Large on Black - Documenta 2017: The picture shows a detail of the digital video work 'Atlas Fractured' by Theo Eshetu ( GB )

Documenta 2017: Antonio Vega Macotela ( Mexiko ): The Mill of Blood - A replica of a coin minting machine used by Spanish settlers in the gold and silver mines of Potosi ( Bolivia ). The wheels were pushed by animals or slaves. The installation will show how economic value was produced in the colonial era. And show as a sample what still happens in the relationship of rich and poor countries to raise the wealth of the 'First World'.

documenta 2017: A sculpture of Stephan Balkenhol up on the St.-Elisabeth-Church, Kassel

documenta 2017: Hiwa K. ( Kurdistan ): When We Were Exhaling Images ( Als wir Bilder ausgeatmet haben ). An Installation of 20 stacked sewer pipes. The artist got his inspiration for this project at the port of Patras ( Greece ). Refugees are dwelling in such pipes for weeks in hope to get with them on a boat to Italy. Without furniture, of course. Students of Kassel Art Academy equipped the pipes with individual furniture for themexhibition. The other aspect of his work is a critic on skyrocket buildings in modern architecture. In urban planning a lot of social architecture is destroyed, in favor of a elite, that is striving for high. The project is meant to remind of something like 'horizontal approach'. The question is: what is high and what's on the bottom and that's a question of might, money and social classes.

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HFF everybody everywhere ! Have a nice Friday and a great weekend ! And: Fences are no solutions. We have to tear down all those fences: between people and countries and, first of all, the fences in our minds. Good Morning !