twin art

What you do see here, is not a piece of this years documenta 12 (the world's most important exhibition of contemporary art taking place at Kassel) - no it's a work of art of the year 1977, made for the documenta 6, which I don't quite know if it was the world's most important exhibition of contemporary art back in that year - but it took definitively place at Kassel. Now to the title of this post: it's called twin art because of the age of both, the vertical earth kilometer and the person wearing these nice checked shoes. For the bargain price of 750,000 DM (€ 383,468) Mr. Walter de Maria had pluged a hole in the middle of the square with one kilometer of brass. And nobody visiting this year's documenta 12 and it's yesterday mentioned poppy seed field has an eye for the art of the year 1977 (it's under the big top).