Conceptual artistMarta Minujínis build a life - size reproduction of the Parthenon , but she ’s using banned Koran or else of marble blocks . AsSmithsonianreports , the creative person has come forth a public call for citizenry to donate 100,000 prohibited title toward her labor . Next leap , the final product will stand in a public second power in Kassel , Germany , where Nazis once burn up M of “ un - German ” leger .
Minujín is creating the large - scale installation fordocumenta , a global arts exhibition that ’s hold in Kassel every five years . This class ’s statute title is “ documenta 14 : Learning From Athens . ” Keeping with the root , the show will kick off in Athens on April 8 and open in Kassel on June 10 .
This is n’t the first time Minujín ’s work has challenged the repression of knowledge and free speech . In 1983 , she make a standardised public work , El Partenón de Libros , after Argentina ’s military dictatorship fell apart . Made from 20,000 Holy Writ forbidden by the military junta , it stand along a central street in Buenos Aires . Instead of simply dismantling it , Minujín had two Crane gratuity it sideways and instructed looker-on to collect and keep the books .
Minujín ’s novel Parthenon will be bombastic and more ambitious than her last . It will also recall a different political unjustness — when German German Nazi burned around 2000 Word of God on May 19 , 1933 , during the “ Aktion across-the-board hideout undeutschen Geist”(Campaign against the Un - German Spirit ) .
Still , the underlying theme remains the same . Like the original 1983 study , Minujín ’s Modern Parthenon will set “ an example against violence , discrimination , and intolerance , ” said Adam Szymczyk , aesthetic director of documenta 14 , in a press statementquoted by the American Library Association .
The Modern Parthenon of censor Quran will go on display in Athens on June 10 , 2017 . After 100 days , it will be dismantled , and the Scripture distributed among onlookers . Want to lend a title ? Documenta 14posted program line onlinefor donating once or currently banned works .
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