An artwork by a group of Indonesian artists that has been criticised for containing antisemitic imagery will be removed from the Documenta contemporary art exhibition in Kassel, the German city’s mayor has announced.
Behind the soldiers can be spotted what the German art magazine Monopol described as a “caricature of a Jew” with sidelocks, a cigar, vampire-like teeth and a black fedora hat carrying the insignia of the Nazi party’s paramilitary organisation, the SS. In a statement, the federal culture minister, Claudia Roth, said: “The removal of this mural, which shows clearly antisemitic pictorial elements, is overdue. The mere covering up and the statement by the Taring Padi artist collective on the matter were absolutely unacceptable.” Roth said there would be an investigation into the decisions that led to the artwork being installed in the first place.
On Tuesday morning, organisers of the exhibition said they had covered up the banner: “Due to a depiction of a figure in the work People’s Justice by the collective Taring Padi, which triggers antisemitic readings, the collective, together with the management of Documenta and the artistic direction of Documenta 15, has decided to cover up the work in question at Friedrichsplatz and to install an explanation next to the work.
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