Taco

DOCUMENTA (13)'s first artist book records the first stage of a project by Guillermo Faivovich (1977 in Buenos Aires) and Nicolás Goldberg (1978 in Paris). Since 2006, the artists have been researching Campo del Cielo, a meteorite shower that occurred in northern Argentina four thousand years ago. El Taco, one of those meteorites, was divided in half in an intricate procedure at the Max Planck Institute in Mainz, Germany halves which have since been located in Washington's Smithsonian Institute and Buenos Aires's planetarium. The two parts of El Taco will be reunited for the first time at an exhibition at Portikus, a step in their journey toward dOCUMENTA (13), where a second part of the project 'A Guide to Campo del Cielo' will take place in 2012. This publication documents the meteorite's long story which involves the artists's archival investigations going back to the fifteenth century and a process that entails the use of various media such as photography and site-specific installations.