One hundred thousand books including those that, throughout history, have been censored and banned, become an integral part of the Greek Parthenon, an evocative installation created by the Argentine artist Marta Minujín
One hundred thousand books including those that, throughout history, have been censored and banned, become an integral part of the Greek Parthenon, an evocative installation created by the Argentine artist Marta Minujín.
XNUMX-year-old Minujín celebrates resistance to political repression with a huge work that is part of the Documenta 14 festival in Kassel, Germany, in the same square where i Nazis they had burned the free 'degenerates'.
This original reproduction of the Parthenon is created with 100 thousand volumes and is part of one of the most important international events in European contemporary art.
Among the volumes are the Decameron by Boccaccio, the General Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein, The metamorphoses by Franz Kafka and the volumes by Niccolò Machiavelli and George Orwell.
The work is called Parthenon of Books and is, according to the artist, the symbol of democracy. The monument was built with the contribution of the students of the local university, who helped Minujín, former partner of Andy Warhol, to draw up a list that includes at least 170 titles which, throughout the history of civilization, have been banned, censored and burned.
Other beautiful monuments:
- THE 10 SCULPTURES SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD THAT LEAVE WITH THE SUSPENDED BREATH
- KALALOCH'S TREE OF LIFE IS A MONUMENT TO RESILIENCE
Copies were distributed throughout the facade and in the columns and especially at night, the effect is extraordinary. In 1983 the same artist had made the "Parthenon of Forbidden Books" he was in a country where in the XNUMXs the military dictatorship had banned volumes by Karl Marx and Fidel Castro, as well as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's “The Little Prince”.
Dominella Trunfio
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