A Country I Would Like To Visit

 

The country from which I'm most interested in traveling is Germany. Specifically in Kassel, this city is located in the center of the Federal Republic of Germany. Apart from the wealth that Eurocentrism historically boasts, this city is especially important to me because of a festival that is held every four years. The contemporary art festival called Documenta. This festival is as important as the Venice biennale, but it doesn't have country pavilions, in this festival they invite artists to make interventions and works throughout the city for a duration of one hundred days. If I could have the chance to travel to this country, I think it would be very enriching for me as an artist and as a nerd. Because in this city artists such as Joseph Beuys, the Chilean artist Lotty Rosenfeld, the curator Harald Szeeman, Claes Oldenburg, Bruce Nauman, Pierre Huyghe, among others, have presented and made works of art.

                   
                                     
Lotty Rosenfeld at Documenta 12 (2007)


I think that without having had the possibility until today to visit a biennale or an international art festival. Dreaming about the possibility of visiting one, without a doubt the first would be Documenta. In this sense, the country or the city that I would like to visit would only be an excuse to get to know international art.

Part of the intervention of Pierre Huyghe at Documenta 13

Also the entire country of Germany is and has been a space for experimentalism in art, in museums, galleries, as well as in the public space as spontaneous acts, monuments and memorials, one example of this is the Skulptur Projekte Münster.


 

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