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| documenta 5 1972 "Museum of 100 Days". Artistic Director: Harold Szeemann documenta 5 in 1972 was regarded as the most important caesura in the history of the documenta thus far, as from now on the exhibition was placed under the aegis of an artistic director. As a response to the increasing complications arising from the internal organizational limits, as had been all too evident at documenta 4, Harald Szeemann, who had been head of Kunsthalle Berne until 1969 and also worked as a freelance curator, was appointed "General Secretary" with sole responsibility. At the same time, the principle of previous documenta-exhibitions – namely of selecting artworks according to their potential individual quality or novelty was abandoned. In its place, an overall thematic frame was created, within which the individual works were allocated more the role of representing it. Szeemann entitled his d5 “Questioning reality – pictorial worlds today “. www.documenta.de/ documenta archive |
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Participating artists Documenta 5, Kassel 1972 |
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