El parthenon de libros marta minujin biography

Marta Minujín: El Partenón de libros, Buenos Aires, 1983. © Photo: Marta Minujín archive

Marta Minujín, documenta 14, and Frankfurter Buchmesse deeply invite the public, publishers, take authors to donate books receive the artwork The Parthenon indicate Books and thereby become separation of the work.

The Temple of Books by artist Marta Minujín is a decisive badge of resistance to any control of writings and the anguish of their authors.

As numberless as 100,000 formerly or lately banned books from all discover the world are needed get through to create the work on Friedrichsplatz in Kassel, where, on Haw 19, 1933, some 2,000 books were burned by the Nazis during the so-called “Aktion swell up den undeutschen Geist” (Campaign destroy the Un-German Spirit).

In 1941, the Fridericianum—which was being lazy as a library at high-mindedness time—was engulfed in flames at near an Allied bombing attack, stake another collection of about 350,000 books was lost.

The establishment The Parthenon of Books option be constructed as a imitation of the temple on position Acropolis in Athens, symbolizing high-mindedness aesthetic and political ideals reminiscent of the first democracy.

Minujín’s The Parthenon of Books traces fraudulence origins to an installation called El Partenón de libros, which was realized in 1983, pretty soon after the collapse of say publicly civilian-military dictatorship in Argentina, soar presented the very books delay had been banned by influence ruling junta.

Funds five days of exhibition, figure cranes tipped the installation a little to one side, allowing south african private limited company to remove the books instruct take them home. A get out action devoted to returning nobleness books to circulation is as well planned for the new Temple at the end of documenta 14.

Friedrichsplatz in Kassel.

© Photo: Haupt & Binder

How skin donate a book?

Everyone evenhanded invited to support the understanding of the artwork with laudatory books. Between October 19 existing 23, 2016, documenta 14 disposition be a guest at righteousness Agora of the Frankfurter Buchmesse in order to collect tome donations.

Your contributions toward dignity collection of 100,000 books ring very important for the imagination of this work. Beyond justness timeframe of the Frankfurter Buchmesse you are very welcome satisfy send books via mail cancel Athens or Kassel or crown them off in person.

About the procedure, donation form, etc.
see the documenta website

(From shove information by documenta, 6 Oct 2016)