Documenta is a world-famous contemporary art event. The Institut Ramon Llull and the Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals (ICEC) are collaborating with it in order to internationalize Catalan culture and promote its artists. This year’s edition features works by Roger Bernat and Daniel G. Andújar, which were presented in Athens on 8th April.

On the night of 23rd June, for the festival of Sant Joan, Daniel García Andújar is celebrating one of the best-known Valencian traditions: burning the falla. The artist has conceived his sculpture 'The Trojan Horse' as an ‘anti-monument’ and it will be used as part of the famous pagan celebration that aims to burn everything that is no longer necessary so that only the essential remains.

“Everyone who tries to burn a canon creates another one, because what you leave behind becomes another canon”. This is the manifesto that can be read on the Trojan horse that Andújar has built together with the fallero artist Manolo Martín. The Alicante-born artist has designed the structure using software, including the figures of the Greek characters hidden inside the horse, and Martín was given the job of building it with paper and wood. It is the central piece in a project that rejects violence.

From 8 p.m. to midnight, the sculpture will be burnt on the esplanade of the Neue Neue Galerie in Kassel. There will also be fireworks and a musical group, all with the intention of occupying public space. Andújar wants there to be the same things that can be seen during the falles week, when the local people eat and drink in the public space, something virtually unheard-of in Germany, where the artist has said that ‘in order to burn something in the street you have to get round a host of laws’.

Daniel García Andújar (Almoradí, 1966) is one of the chief exponents of so-called Net Art, a type of art created by and for the Internet. Andújar is a founding member of irational.org and has directed many workshops for artists and groups from different countries. The artist has always been interested in inequality in information societies. This is why he created Technologies To The People with the aim of showing the possible deception by the media in order to maintain control, disguised as supposed transparency.