documenta 12

｜Fridericianum 2007
Photo: Werner Maschmann
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今年三月前往巴黎參加藝術節時認識了旅德台灣藝術家李子勳，因為他的介紹當時才知道在德國有個世界知名的卡塞爾文件展，而且參展的藝術家都是世界之選，也因為其每五年舉辦一次的特性，再加上展前的國際研討會，吸引著許多藝術朝聖者引頸期盼，前來觀賞藝術世界的最新潮流。今年台灣也有優秀的藝術家曾御欽參展，以29歲的年紀躍上世界藝術殿堂，被媒體封為藝術界的台灣之光！

《卡塞爾文件展介紹》

文件展（The documenta）被認為是最重要的現代藝術展覽，吸引全世界的注意。起源於1955年的文件展由藝術家、同時又從事藝術教育的Arnold Bode創立於卡塞爾（Kassel）。經過了納粹專治政權的時代後，文件展試著用國際現代事物調和德國的公眾生活，同時也開始面對自己失敗的啟蒙。

在當時沒有任何人會料到這個常被稱作「一百天美術館」的展覽，如今變成一個無可比擬的成功展覽。然而，第十二屆的文件展將在2007年夏天舉行。

而展覽卓越的名聲已經被保存下來。每隔五年，一個新的策展人被選出為展覽獨立策展，而其概念與理念確實引起了大眾的興趣。參觀人數持續上升，超過650,000的觀眾已經參與了展覽。

在每五年持續的更換策展人、並且以公平審慎的態度進行之下，文件展已變成一個世界級的當代藝術權威。同時也被世界公認、只要在文件展的展出的藝術創作，就代表著整個世界的藝術潮流並且具有公眾展出的實際目的。

Roger M. Buergel為第十二屆卡塞爾文件展的藝術策展人

第十二屆卡塞爾文件展的藝術策展人是Roger M. Buergel，一個活躍的國際級展覽組織及管理者，生於1962年柏林。他將與藝術史學家Ruth Noack一起完成文件展的任務：將世界上各種領域及所有可想像到的藝術媒材作品展示出來，這些作品在某些程度上必須是有彼此關聯性的。

主導動機:同時對藝術及公眾提出三個問題

為了開始產生更多交流，文件展同時對藝術及公眾提出三個問題：人類能夠在一般的眼界底下辨別出所有的不同嗎？藝術是否是這種知識的媒介呢？什麼該做、什麼必須是我們在智慧與精神上要學習的、以求對抗全球化效應？那是不是一個美學教育與培養的問題？當所有不可缺的事物被減去，還有什麼東西可以組成生活？藝術是否能幫助我們去洞察什麼是必要的呢？

更多關於主導動機的資訊請點這裡。

以上文件展的介紹是譯自第十二屆德國卡塞爾文件展的媒體新聞稿，附上原文如有譯誤請多指教。



｜„Modernity?”, Cover
Design: Martha Stutteregger
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The documenta is regarded as the most important exhibition of contemporary art, drawing attention from all over the world. It was initiated in 1955 by the artist and art educator, Arnold Bode, in Kassel. After the period of Nazi dictatorship, it was intended to reconcile German public life with international modernity and also confront it with its own failed Enlightenment.

Nobody would have thought at that time that the exhibition, often called the One Hundred Day Museum, would become an unparalleled success. Nevertheless, the twelfth documenta will be taking place in summer 2007.

The singular character of the exhibition has been preserved. Every five years, a new director is chosen and the exhibition is reinvented, a concept which to date has been affirmed by the public's interest. The number of visitors has continually risen. More than 650 thousand visitors came to Documenta11.

Under continually changing directorship, and in the equally leisurely and inexorable rhythm of five years, the documenta has advanced to become an authoritative worldwide seismograph of contemporary art. At the documenta, it becomes manifest whether art is succeeding in grasping the world in images and whether these images have validity for its public.

Roger M. Buergel is the artistic director of documenta 12

The artistic director of documenta 12 is Roger M. Buergel, an internationally active exhibition organiser and curator who was born in Berlin in 1962. Together with the art historian, Ruth Noack as curator, he will, in line with the documenta's claims, show art from the most various regions of the world and in all conceivable media. The works should not be shown simply unrelated to each other in a line, but be put into relationship with each other.

The leitmotifs: Three questions posed for art but also for its public

To initiate such a productive exchange, the documenta poses three questions for art, and also for its public: Is humanity able to recognise a common horizon beyond all differences? Is art the medium for this knowledge? What is to be done, what do we have to learn in order to cope intellectually and spiritually with globalisation? Is that a question of aesthetic education and cultivation? What constitutes life, when everything is subtracted which does not belong essentially to life? Does art help us to penetrate to what is essential?

For further information on the leitmotifs click here.



｜Georg Schöllhammer
Director documenta 12 magazines
Photo: Maria Ziegelböck
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