Up to 17. In September, the Obelisk stands in the centre of Kassel. Unless the city buys the refugees, dedicated to the work of art. The AfD is, however, and speaks according to reports in the media of “distorted art”.
16 meters high, the Obelisk, has stood for since the beginning of this year’s Documenta on to the Central Royal square of Kassel. On the four sides in gold lettering in Arabic, German, English and Turkish, the Bible quote: “I was a stranger, and ye took me home.” Has created the work of art by Nigerian artist Olu Oguibe, wants to remind you of the 60 million people on the run. He himself left 30 years ago his home and has since lived in the United States. For his obelisk, he was honored in June with the Arnold-Bode-Preis.
This assessment of the Kassel art jury, the local Alternative for Germany (AfD) shall not share according to the newspaper Hessische niedersächsische Allgemeine (HNA). So the AfD should be referred to city councillors, Thomas Maternal the obelisk as an “ideologically polarizing, misleading art”. In the cultural Committee wanted advice about whether the Obelisk will remain after the Documenta in Kassel, Germany, on the king place, and it came to a head. Maternal argued that the newspaper, if it came to a purchase, would call his party “each of the refugees committed attack” to demonstrations in front of the obelisk. That he may know the anger of the citizens over the work of art.
“I was a stranger, and ye took me home”, the Obelisk on the Kassel Königsplatz
Majority for the obelisk
The other groups were, however, positive about the possible whereabouts of Oguibes obelisk. If, however, the Central king’s square is the appropriate place, it was divided. The decision on which Documenta-art factory in Kassel remains, and whether the Obelisk will be going to is on 5. September, a purchase Commission of the city of a recommendation. According to a survey conducted by the local daily newspaper HNA under 5000 citizens, 60 percent of the Kasseler to the whereabouts of the obelisk in the Central square.
The Documenta in Kassel is regarded as the world’s most important exhibition of contemporary art and is held every five years. The current Documenta 14 will be perceived as particularly political. Refugees are one of the Central themes.
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