PGU 66

My Commentary

Prontuário Geral Unificado 666 (General Record Unified 666). As it is  known, 666 is the number of the beast. As I wrote Artista Profissional on the cover, people confuse the name.

It started in 1972 when Walter Zanini Director of the Museu de Arte Contempoâne of the University of São Paulo, decided to make an Art Salon without any kind of selection. It was made a draw of spaces available for participation, among those present, and I had no luck. Radha Abramo, critic and curator, made a speech saying that Gabriel Borba had to participate. So she bought the participation from someone who was not interested, just passing by, and made a donation to me.

I asked for documents such as reicipt, donation certificate, authorization of the director of the house (Zanini, director of MAC USP) and started to take those documents to be certified by other authorities. Some of them asked more other documents as Residence Certificate or Morality Certificate, and many other stupid things. I went adding titles, stamps and other elements to falsify some of the documents to be able to introduce them in one more bureaucratic office. The last one I got was a card naming me Professional Artist.

I put those falsified documents all together, bound in a burocratic folder, following the structure of Brecht’s The Exception and the Rule. It was a photocopy edition.

_{Gabriel Borba, 2016}