| Summary: | "Originallyfake" was an art project developed by Gabriel de la Mora (b. Mexico City 1968) after winning a legal battle against the Mapplethorpe Foundation. "By placing us before the flourishing industry of fakes, the artist makes evident the instability of the institutions of art as well as the very concept of creation. This enterprise no doubt transformed De la Mora into a relentless hunter searching for pieces on different strata of the underworld of the black market for art, as well as into an experienced negotiator dealing with galleries, auction houses, restoration workshops and collectors who had been taken by surprise. Confronting simulation led him to charge head-on toward the materiality of the adulterated work - not for morality's sake but for that of language. Hence the dislocations and frictions of his project where he grinds, flays, dissolves, scratches, incinerates, melts, erases, encrypts, masks, blurs, empties, corrupts and resorts to the phantom, the double, the reverse, the reflection and the factice. But the principle of destruction does not renounce craftsmanship" --Page 15.
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