Art to the Nth degree...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Rubinmusik 1977-2017

Joanna MacGregor - Play

Various - Krautrock : Music for Your Brain

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentyseventeen

Cambini - Wind Quintets #1-3; Briccialdi: Wind Quintet In D

Fauré - Complete Music For Piano

The Beatles - Chronology

Strawbs - From The Witchwood

The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum

Alphaville - Forever Young

King Crimson - Live in Berlin

Kepler - Ten Delta - V

Konono N°1 - Congotronics

George Harrison - Living in the Material World

Ellie Goulding - Delirium

Orrin Evans - Meant To Shine

The Beatles - Revolver

Various - Divine Music Centre • Volume 16

Gubaidulina - Seven Words, Silenzio, In Croce

King Crimson - 2017 Tour

Bennie Green - Soul Stirrin'

Misty this morning, as we prepared for our second day at Documenta 14...



Despite getting there for 10 for the ticket office opening...



...there were still long queues, presumably of people with long-term or two day tickets on their second day...

Our own tickets secured, we joined the queue...

And in at 10:25...

I will let the art speak for itself in the main...

The exhibition has been criticised for having no over-arching theme...

For me though, that's the very nature of Documenta...

However, the books I purchased yesterday, unlike those for previous exhibitions, do not set out the works involved and so, without taking pics of any descriptive paras alongside the works, I am unable to advise which artists are responsible for which works...

Therefore, best just enjoy them for what they are...

The first room...

Upstairs...

Pictures, recently discovered, documenting Documenta IV...

These items, which look like cardboard, Styrofoam and wood, are fashioned from marble...

Ah, the ubiquitous tent - note Anne yawning...

This an intro to a film about psychoanalysis - which Anne got bored with - to be fair, it was 40 mins long...

A film she did enjoy though, was Bill Viola's "The Raft"...

This, the recreated inside of a factory under demolition, complete with buzzes and cracking on the soundtrack...

Onwards...

Good viewing stances were on display...

Back to the start, with a large magnet clattering on the back of the sheet of metal at the entrance to the first room...

Over to the other side of the ground floor...

...and...

...out...

To the Documenta Halle...

Absolutely packed...

Into the main exhibition room...

Items of Indigo, above indigo plants...

Shipwrecks re-imagined as musical instruments...

...and Nordic tapestry...

In this room, a video of previous visitors to the room...

The steps above were not an exhibit, those below were...

Time for a coffee...

To the Orangerie...

...for some Greek singing...

Then, a walk...

...and more queuing at the Neue Gallerie...

A man hacking through cloth...

...to eventually be faced by another man, whom he also hacked through - the representation of which was extremely disappointing indeed - where was Alice Cooper when we needed him?

This is one of my favourite shots of the day...

While this man, totally unknown to me, struck a pose...

...which anticipated Anne's...

Real Nazis, apparently...

Josef Beuys, of course...

An art contract...

Books looted from Jews...

The Marshall Plan...

The founder of Documenta, painted by my fave, Gerhard Richter...

...and a kind of blurry Richter of my own making...

This exhibit was a "war machine"...

Onwards...

..and out...

A walk up to the Kuturbahnhof...

We were enticed into this container...

...and down into the old underground station...

..and back out into the light...

More walking as we sought out the Neue Neue Gallerie...

This was the type of venue which, for me, kind of symbolises the Documenta aesthetic - a disused postal distribution warehouse...

Reindeer skulls...

Every one of the beasts appears to have been shot in the head...

Out into the sunshine and another walk up to the Konigsplatz...

...to revisit some big art...

...take in some refreshments and decide on what was next...

This drinking dog was not part of Documenta...

Apparently, Katja Kipping is Koming to Kassel...

A look around the bookstore at the main square - some Richter items spotted...

...outwith my budget though...

Back past the Parthenon....

The oak trees are part of a Josef Beuys project "7000 Eichen" from Documenta VII...

Each of the 7,000 oaks planted around the city has a block of stone set in the ground next to it...

Now, a further walk back to Bellevue for more art...

For example, a 35 minute film of a lady being chased by a tank...

A machine gune constructed from the parts of a sewing machine...

Anne enjoyed a well earned rest...

Out...

People were still queuing for the Neue Gallerie...

We called Jorg and arranged a meet at 6:15 - eight hours from the starting point of our arting about...

Back to the Kulturbahnhof, where he was due to arrive...

This time, we were not enticed...

A look around - like the park, many fewer exhibits in and around this venue this time...

...but we managed to find a few...

The light was good as we made our way back to the platform where Jorg would alight...

And so, for us, Documenta 14 was over...

Jorg was pleased...

Another lovely tea in another middle eastern restaurant...

A walk back to the car...

...and a drive home in the cinquecento, including a stop by Manuella's place, where we met her two kids Angie and Toby...

All arted out...

Highlight of the Day : Documenta...