Robarte el arte (1972)

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 cutup 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 Documentas institutionalized role to chart the current art developments and thus setting the foundation for a socalled canon as Eurocentric