Angelika Whenever we visit Germany, time is incredibly tight, and we can hardly fit everything in. If we didn't manage to visit you, please forgive us, but you know where we live. This time, we traveled long distances across the country; from southern Germany to northern Germany and back again. And since our tour of Germany was also our annual vacation this year, we tried to visit some tourist highlights as well.
So we made a stopover in Nuremberg and in Volkach on the Wine Route and included a visit to the world-famous "Documenta" exhibition in Kassel. We both appreciate modern art and were not disappointed. Everything was very well organized, and the audience was amazingly international (the French seem to particularly like the Documenta). Michael and I especially liked the works of the American artist Llyn Foulkes, who lives in Los Angeles and whom we had never heard of before, partly because the 77-year-old artist shuns the public and hasn't had a major exhibition in the USA for years.
In 2013, there is finally supposed to be a retrospective in Los Angeles. His three-dimensional paintings often deal with the utopia of the American dream. His second passion is music. Foulkes built a kind of drum set out of horns and trumpets, which can also be admired at the Documenta. Or the huge tapestry by the Polish artist Goshka Macuga, which shows guests at a banquet in front of the war-torn Darulaman Palace in Kabul. If you are near Kassel, be sure to visit the Documenta.