Word: documenta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...object of countless gastronomic pilgrimages, its 8,000 reservations per season snapped up in a single day, its edible foams and spheres now part of the contemporary culinary vocabulary. But since its famous chef, Ferran Adrià, was named a featured artist in this year's edition of Documenta, the provocative contemporary art show held every five years in Kassel, Germany...
...fizz that manages simultaneously to be hot and cold, the edible "paper" dotted with flowers, the frozen parmesan "air" that comes packed in a Styrofoam tub, and asking: Is it art or is it dinner? "We aren't saying that cooking is a new art form," says Ruth Noack, Documenta's curator. "We're saying that Ferran Adrià shows artistic intelligence." That distinction was lost last summer when director Roger Buergel announced that Adrià would be part of this summer's show, which opened on June 16 and runs through Sept. 23. Skeptics complained that embracing a cook...
...each of the 100 days that Documenta lasts, Noack and Buergel select two people to send for dinner at Adrià's restaurant. "We go into the exhibition space and watch for someone who, figuratively, speaks to us," says Noack. Franziska Flögel became one of the chosen after she happened to strike up a conversation with the curator about the exhibition's audio guides, and let slip that she and her husband had been coming to Documenta since 1968. "We had read that two people were being sent each day," says Flögel. "But we thought...
...Chocolate Factory, Adrià is Willy Wonka. For all his influence and renown, the chef still clearly delights in his work, and his enthusiasm for the joy that food can bring is contagious. "This is the most beautiful thing I've done," he says about hosting the Documenta visitors. "You have to see their faces to understand it. It's not just something conceptual - they live in their flesh. It's a magical experience." Although Adrià is quick to point out that other media, such as photography, encountered artistic resistance when they were first introduced, he prefers to stay...
...with the significant difference that it takes place in Venice, that most magnificent of stage sets. And if you don't find the epiphany you were hoping for here, coming up next is Art 38 Basel, Switzerland's art trade fair, a citywide aesthetic shop floor. Then there's Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany, and then the Sculpture Project in Münster. Dealers, curators, critics and other determined members of the migratory art herd will be turning up at all four. There's a line from an old Stephen Sondheim song that could be their anthem. Do you know...