Robarte el arte (1972)
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Robarte el arte

For Robarte el Arte [Stealing the Art] (1972),Juan José Gurrola together with Gelsen Gas and Arnaldo Coen supposedly stole an artwork during Documenta 5 in 1972 and represented it with an asterisk of scotch tape on a rock in the Wilhelmshöhe Park. Sequences of this performative action are montaged like in a silent movie with panels of cut-up newspaper text blocks, installation shots from the Documenta exhibition inside and outside Fridericianum, and scenes from a horror porn movie based on the story of the serial killer "Goyo" Cárdenas – his case became a sensation on Mexican media in the 1940s and inspired several copycat murderers imitating his crimes – and underscored with a dramatic soundtrack. With Robarte el Arte, the artists satirically destabilize Documenta’s institutionalized role to chart the current art developments and thus setting the foundation for a so-called canon as Eurocentric.

Release: Mar 02, 1972

Duration: 35m

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Quality: HD

Actors: Juan José Gurrola, Gelsen Gas, Arnaldo Cohen

Director: Juan José Gurrola

IMDb: 0/10

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