Part One: Saabumenta XII

The Saab Art Lounge curators explore Documenta XII, sponsored by Saab.

"1,001 Ming- and Qing-dynasty chairs a component of Ai Weiwei's Fairytale project for Documenta in which he will gather 1,001 Chinese people from the artist's sprawling, blog-mediated social network, give them matching clothes and luggage, fly them en bloc to Kassel, billet them on bamboo bunks in Ai-designed temporary quarters inside an old textile factory, and set them to wandering the city for the three-month duration of the show, which opens June 16. A spokesperson at Ai's studio says, To design also means to set up a condition, which makes individuals change. The project is about a new way to communicate, to participate, a new spiritual condition.. "

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• Saab
• Documenta
• XII
• contemporary
• art
• Kassel
• Germany
• Bauhaus
• Mary
• Jane
• Jacobs
• Ai
• Weiwei

[ZoriXX]

So great! 'reading as a sensation,I feel like an inhabitant of books...there is so much context, that I'm actually more interested in the empty space around the context..'

[DesearchRepartment]

Ha ha... the line is, "I am actually more interested in the empty spaces around the content." We have to put out the newer version of Saabumenta... wth subtitles. It's amazing.

[ZoriXX]

however! the newer version could be a bit louder, that s all. but I still like the empty space around the context.. it's like too much of everything

[DesearchRepartment]

True, it works either way. That is the beauty of emptiness and meaninglessness.

[netty1971]

Art is a vehicle. I like the opening of the roof. I am still dwelling in negative space: in Wales. Looking at art and going out certainly has a positive effect!! For me, art has a lot to do with beauty but in the Documenta a lot of the artwork is actually ugly or about wars.

[DesearchRepartment]

But isn't that Saab an image of beauty itself? Wow.

[maybechildhood]

how many times can one person say scuba diving in one sentence?

[mumiol]

i know - it is only art but i like it. mumiol

[ZoriXX]

So great! 'reading as a sensation,I feel like an inhabitant of books...there is so much context, that I'm actually more interested in the empty space around the context..'

[restive123]

The beautiful thing about art is how it enables us to dwell in negative space. In art, we CAN hear the silence.