Minujin promises to do “a scandal” in Germany
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“It will be a scandal, a monumental work of mass collaboration posed learn from Athens, Man outdoing himself, and living in art”, Marta anticipated Minujín on “The Parthenon books” will build with 100 thousand volumes banned in Documenta, the most important fair of contemporary art in the world, which will run from 10 June to 17 September in Kassel, Germany.
“Learn from Athens” is the theme of the meeting that within four months take the German city of Kassel and this year will have its prelude in the Greek capital, home of the temple and replied Minujín ago 34 years at the intersection of avenues porteñas 9 Julio and Santa Fe, books banned during the military dictatorship.
The genesis of this work was “celebrate the restoration of democracy”. The year 1983 in Argentina and Minujín mounted a replica of the Parthenon, more humble, in one of the most emblematic streets of the city of Buenos Aires. This year the installation searches “mobilize people to their participation” Y “value freedom”, He summed up the artist in an interview with Telam.
“Learn from Athens” is the theme of the meeting that within four months take the German city of Kassel and this year will have its prelude in the Greek capital, home of the temple and replied Minujín ago 34 years at the intersection of avenues porteñas 9 Julio and Santa Fe, books banned during the military dictatorship.
The genesis of this work was “celebrate the restoration of democracy”. The year 1983 in Argentina and Minujín mounted a replica of the Parthenon, more humble, in one of the most emblematic streets of the city of Buenos Aires. This year the installation searches “mobilize people to their participation” Y “value freedom”, He summed up the artist in an interview with Telam.
“Hundred thousand books, hundred days, hundred artists, one that replicates the original Parthenon (70 meters 30 surface and 19 High), this work is finished when books are read”, Minujín said among the works of the gigantic workshop occupies in the neighborhood of San Cristobal.
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