| The opening days of dOCUMENTA(13). Kassel, 9/6 - 16/9 2012 Photo reportage by Lucy Rees and Daniela Ambrosio |
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| |  | | Participating artist Ryan Gander and his dealers from Lisson Gallery at the Absolut Art Bureau cocktail party to celebrate their collaboration with dOCUMENTA13. Thursday June 9. | | | |
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| |  | | Tim Hamilton has collaborated with Seth Price. Friedrichsplatz Parking Garage in Kassel. | | | |
| |  | | Seth Price’s after party. Thursday June 7, 2012. | | | |
| | | |  | | Flash Art Italia editor, Daniela Ambrosio, in the Rotunda in the Fridericianum. | |
| | | |  | | Display shelves housing various objects and artifacts including the so-called Bactrian Princesses, seated figurines mostly female stemming from civilisation of the late third and early second millenia B.C. Rotunda in the Fridericianum. | |
| |  | | Installation view of the Rotunda in the Fridericianum, which acts as an associative space of research. | | | |
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| | | |  | | Installation view of first level in the Fridericianum | |
| | | |  | | View from above the Rotunda in the Fridericianum | |
| |  | | Alighiero Boetti. Mappa. 1971. Embroided Tapestry. Made in Afghanistan. 147 x 228 cm. Fridericianum. | | | |
| | | |  | | Installation view of Doreen Reid Nakamarra’s works in the Fridericianum. | |
| |  | | Fabio Mauri. Forse L’arte non e’ autonomia. Doormat cuts. 200 x 420 cm. Fridericianum. | | | |
| |  | | Fabio Mauri. | | | |
| |  | | Flash Art International May/June issue at the dOCUMENTA13 bookstore. | | | |
| |  | | Visitors. | | | |
| |  | | Giuseppe Penone. Idea di Petree. (Ideas of Stone). Bronze and Stone. 2008/2010/2012. | | | |
| |  | | dOCUMENTA 13 director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev giving a talk in the Sahwari Tent Cooperative, 2012. The Art of Sahrawi Cooking (2012) is a solitary ceremonial desert tent stitched by women from Western Sahara, prisoners in their own territory. | | | |
| |  | | Carolyn talking to journalists. | | | |
| |  | | View of the Orangerie, where considerations around mapping and questions of time space and experience are explored. Artists include Tarek Atoui, Erkki Kurenniemi, Anri Sala, Jeronimo Voss, Ryan Gander, Susan Hiller, David Link, Mika Taanila and Konrad Zuse. | | | |
| |  | | This white sculpture, several meters high, was designed by the Thai artists Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Chai Siri. "The ghost followed us from Thailand to Kassel. Thanks to the sculpture, we recall the victims of political violence in Thailand" commented Weerasethakul. | | | |
| |  | | Mathias Ardnt, director of Ardnt Gallery in Berlin and Lilly Wei of Art in America, New York. Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney cocktail party. Il Convento. Friday June 8. | | | |
| |  | | Liz Ann Macgregor, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and Australian artist Fiona Hall whose work can be found in the Karlsaue Park | | | |
| |  | | Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney cocktail party. Il Convento. Friday June 8. | | | |
| |  | | Flash Art International editor, Lucy Rees, with Lilly Wei of Art in America, and Ann Strauss, associate curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. | | | |
| |  | | Mark Hughes, former director of Gallery Lelong New York, and Ann Strauss curator of Modern and Contemporary Art from the MET. | | | |
| |  | | Tyler Rollins, director of Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York and Lilly Wei of Art in America. | | | |
| |  | | Absolut Art Bureau dinner at the Green House, Auepark, Kassel. From left our editor of Flash Art Italia Daniela Ambrosio, Calum Sutton president of Sutton PR, Hannah Moeram Independent art advisor and Lilly Wei. | | | |
| |  | | Absolut Art Bureau dinner. Green House, Auepark. Friday 8 June, 2012. | | | |
| |  | | dOCUMENTA 13 Official Opening Party in the Hauptbahnoff station. Friday 8 June, 2012. | | | |
| |  | | Simryn Gill. Where to draw the line, (2012). This project consists of seven essays written by Gill over the past year. Edited in Melbourne and typed in Port Dickson onto long scrolls of paper, with no spaces between letters or words, the texts resemble a tapestry. Hauptbahnoff. Gill will represent Australia at the 2013 Venice Biennale. | | | |
| |  | | Seth Price developed huge wall mounted business envelopes in parallel to the clothing line he collaborated on with US designer Tim Hamilton. Hauptbahnoff. | | | |
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| |  | | Installation/performance being carried through the streets of Kassel. | | | |
| |  | | Stuart Ringholt, Anger Workshops. Neue Galerie. During the workshops visitors are offered the opportunity to express their anger using voice and movement to the sound of loud house music for five minutes before then embracing other members of the group. The room is closed to the public, although the sound of the workshops can be heard outside its walls. | | | |
| |  | | Rosella Biscotti’s installation. Neue Galerie. | | | |
| |  | | Geoffery Farmer. Leaves of Grass (2012) consists of hundreds of shadow puppets that have been fabricated from photographs cut out from Life, the classic American news magazine. | | | |
| |  | | Exterior view of Neue Galerie. | | | |
| |  | | Francis Alys. Installation view in the Obere Karlsstr. 4 (Ex- Bakery). | | | |
| |  | | Theaster Gate’s site specific work, activating as a venue and permanent sculpture for Kassel in the dilapidated Huguenot House, built in 1826, resulting in a lived in laboratory. 12 ballads for the Huguenot House, (2012). | | | |
| |  | | Theaster Gate. Room detail in 12 ballads for the Huguenot House, (2012). | | | |
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