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In May, 2005, the exhibit "Rodin in Chile" took place.

It was the first time the sculptor's work came to the country.

We had Rodin in Chile,

we had people happy seeing his exhibit.

Thus it was deeply satisfying.

That lasted until one day at 5 PM.

What happened that day at 5 PM?

They called me from the Fine Arts Museum,

to tell me that...

There were a lot of journalists who wanted to talk to me.

And I asked, "Why so much interest?"

and only in that moment

did I realize what had happened.

Well, you'd get to the museum,

on time, I started at 9.

I got there, got ready.

Normally we work in suits,

"suit and tie" so to speak.

I always dress the same so I don't usually have to change a lot,

but to make sure my shoes and everything are impeccable,

and the first thing you'd do is go to the entrance,

and the other makes the rounds.

That's more or less the procedure, so...

It was my turn to make the rounds...

...that day.

I checked the halls, and obviously I went to the Rodin exhibit,

because that was the most important at the time.

I noticed right away that a sculpture was missing.

To me, it was like, "W-What happened here?"

I never imagined it had been stolen,

instead you think, ah, it was removed by someone...

...from the museum,

from conservation,

some kind of transfer, who knows.

–Around 11 AM,

A guard approached me and asked me to...

to accompany him,

because they want to confirm something.

And when I saw the empty podium,

in the Matta Gallery, that was, to me...

I think among the emotions I've experienced in the museum,

without a doubt, this was the most intense.

Because the image is so tremendous,

that emptiness is so present,

the absence, that my mind really went blank.

I was in the south, in Puerto Varas at the time.

I was representing the museum in an art competition,

when they managed to reach me, which was very difficult

because I didn't use a cell phone at that time,

I don't use one now, either, nor do I plan on using one.

One of the people who came with me in that vehicle, a van,

had a cell phone, so she told me, "The Museum is calling you,"

and so I took the... cell phone,

and wham!

They said to me,

violently and brutally,

a Rodin was stolen.

In that moment, the first thing that occurred to me,

was to call the Minister of Education to let him know,

so that he wouldn't find out like I did.

The Minister of Education at the time was Sergio Bitar.

...And this was a call I received in my office,

it must've been from Clara Budnik,

telling me, "This is what happened."

I was alarmed because

the negative political implications for Chile were huge.

"In a Rodin exhibit they stole a piece in Chile".

You'd imagine, after that, nobody'd want to exhibit in Chile.

When an event like that happens to you,

your first obligation is

to call the lender.

Alejandro and I called the Rodin Museum,

I remember I called when we could, maybe 8 AM, 7 AM...

and I said, "Well, a sculpture has been stolen."

On the other end, of course, "OHHH!"

A howl, French-style...

In that time I was the chief of the brigade

for the environment and cultural heritage

I received an order from District Attorney Baytelman

that we had to take on the investigation

into the theft of a sculpture,

which had occurred at the Fine Arts Museum.

The first thing we found out,

in response to the first question you ask yourself,

it's common sense,

you don't have to be D.A. to do it, to ask...

"What about the security cameras?"

The first thing we confirmed is that,

the light that was supposed to be on,

was off. And so...

We had a camera in silence and black

from the Matta Gallery.

It's not as if the lights had failed.

For economic reasons,

the museum...

shut them off,

and the thing is, the cameras there...

aren't infrared.

Here you're seeing the pedestal

where the sculpture was.

that one looks like a hair.

Unfortunately, for the investigation, nothing.

It wasn't any good because...

there were no witnesses,

no one saw anything...

What would've been the most important, the cameras, didn't work,

that would've told us everything.

At first we had no idea how,

we thought it was an international ring,

that they'd go to steal it,

take them out of the country,

store them away for years,

and then it'd be up for sale,

or it'd ends, as with many of these robberies,

no longer in a museum, but in some rich guy's house,

who'd have it there for his eyes only.

How are you? Good afternoon.

Breaking news coming from the Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago,

where we're told of the theft

of a valuable piece by French sculptor Auguste Rodin.

Live from the center of the capital,

journalist Alejandro Vega.

Alejandro, do we know what piece has been stolen?

No, Consuelo, good afternoon.

We still don't know what piece,

it was mentioned that it was possibly

"The Kiss" by Rodin, the French sculptor,

however, the only information we know so far

is that it's a piece worth 500,000 Euros

Approximately 700,000 Euros

80,000 Euros

4,000 Dollars

1.000.000 dollars

Today, such important works of art are stolen,

that it's one of the biggest forms of international crime.

that it's one of the biggest forms of international crime.

It is classified in 4th or 5th place after the trafficking of cocaine, heroin, weapons...

cybercrime, etc.

But I think the question is...

deeper than that.

Because, really...

art isn't just any object.

Art is a sacred object, always,

and this dimension of the sacred in art can't be ignored.

You know that one of the most important moments in the fame of the Mona Lisa

was when it was stolen, right before the world war

That is, in Rodin's day,

an Italian stole the Mona Lisa.

The theft was discovered by a painter

a copyist who had gone to the Louvre to reproduce the piece,

who noticed that the painting wasn't there.

He went to ask the guards and curators,

and at the end of the day there was enough evidence

that the Mona Lisa...

had disappeared.

The Mona Lisa had disappeared for 3 years

But actually the painting was found because the thief

tried to sell it to an antique dealer in Florence

So that phenomenon was very important

within the history of the Louvre

and even in art history at the beginning of the 20th century

And...

Something that makes me relate

the theft of the Rodin in Chile with that of the Mona Lisa,

is the fact that it was immediately assumed that...

that the thefts...

could have been carried out by artists.

In 2005, I was working for an exhibit in a museum,

of which the theme was

interpretations of the Temptations of Saint Anthony.

The representation of Saint Anthony

within the iconography of... Christianity,

gives rise to monstrous representations.

But the theme interested me for visual reasons.

Guillermo Frommer's exhibit opened in the museum,

in the Chile Gallery.

Thus, Rodin was in the Matta Gallery.

and Guillermo Frommer was in the Chile Gallery,

and the public that visited the opening

was fundamentally the public linked to the academic field

of Guillermo Frommer, so,

they were students from the art school at Arcis University.

I was next to Ramón,

and I saw this crowd of people,

and like, I almost took off running.

There were a lot of people, a lot of people.

And in that sense I was very happy...

with the attendance on that day of the opening

We took the liberty to go home,

the night guard had already arrived, so...

all clear, nothing new,

back home until the next day.

And the next day...

Unfortunately, we came across quite the surprise.

–Right, some media outlets had come out with this story

that I was a possible suspect.

That is, that I had set all this up,

to steal the sculpture myself.

The event was held by a university after the exhibit was open

so... it was attended by students of that university,

and guests of the university.

–The investigation continues.

Until when?

Until we know how the piece left the museum.

I remember the moment perfectly.

I found it an infinite act of "punga"-ness [trashy, classless].

I mean, that word exists in Chile

and you have to use it. The word "punga".

I mean, for someone to rob a sculpture–

For the first time, they lend us this tremendous exhibit,

and someone comes and does something "punga", you know?

They steal it. That's "punga".

It got to the point where I was so overwhelmed,

and that everything was so absurd,

the dialogues, the theories,

because everyone starts to think,

"Who stole it, who didn't steal it, in what situation,"

"under what circumstances..."

so what I did at that point was,

I went for a walk.

I walked and walked and walked,

and I went to Forest Park,

and walked all around it,

at a fast pace,

rethinking everything that had happened,

to see how I could re-approach the situation.

And where did you go that day,

when you found out about the theft?

What did you do that day?

In the car, in the unlikeliest neighborhoods of Santiago,

neighborhoods I'd never been to,

one, because I'm a foreigner,

so I'd never been in those neighborhoods.

We were in the car,

each with our cell phones,

trying to figure out what was happening.

In a way you were looking for the sculpture.

Well, it was a way to do something,

to react, to not sit around doing nothing.

I mean...

We were looking for it, yeah.

Ridiculous, but, that's what it was.

Jorge Ramirez confirmed the name of the stolen sculpture,

which was still undisclosed–

–None other than the Torso of Adele–

"Isn't it marvelous?" said Rodin,

"Accept that you didn't expect to see so much detail,

admire the infinite undulations of the curvature,

that unites the groin with the thigh,

savor all of the voluptuous curves of the hip,

and now there, on the back,

all of those adorable dumples.

It's real flesh,

seeming abundant in kisses and caresses."

It's almost unthinkable not to invoke Rodin's love of women.

It was of public notoriety, there were press statements,

caricatures that would make him out to be... sex-crazed,

erotic in terms of the time period,

incapable of seeing a beautiful woman

without throwing himself on top of her.

the text that we just read...

the words of Rodin on the Torso of Adele.

"It's real flesh" is saying that, surely, he brings his work far

from the forms, because he feels the same love

for the scultpure as for women.

Over here! over here!

Can you turn it around so we can see it?

–Sure.

Wait a second. Wait a second.

There?

There?

Today, a young man showed up,

a university student,

who, this morning, was walking through Forest Park,

and at about 500 meters from the main entrance to the Museum,

he found this piece wrapped in nylon and cardboard.

It caught his eye, then he saw that there was metal,

he picked it up and brought it home.

–I remember I appeared, there were journalists,

and I forgot the place was crowded

I raised my arm, I said it reappeared, and I was happy.

Then I started thinking, what would happen? I mean...

It wasn't there, it was in the police station,

It had to be brought, there was the D.A.,

but at that moment, well...

Phew. It's over, we have it.

It was found!

How??

The police found it in a bush.

A bush?

But if it was to steal it, I thought, to sell it internationally,

to make a ton of money,

to find it in a bush near the Museum in Forest Park,

very strange.

We received word from D.A. Baytelman

that the statue had appeared in the southern zone...

I was in the car and Baytelman called,

saying that we had to go there because they'd found it, so...

we were relieved,

but,

not entirely, because we hadn't seen the piece,

so we didn't know what state of conservation it was in.

Go slow, go slow.

As you could imagine,

When I got out of the PDI car,

the only thing going through my head was,

"I'm going to slip!"

and the next day's headlines,

"Prosecutor recovers and destroys,

due to clumsiness and lack of motor skills,

The Torso of Adèle."

I was looking at it, and I couldn't believe it.

I look at it as if, I don't know,

a child you'd lost in the street and then you find him.

So I was quite tired, and...

I still didn't understand what was happening.

"Discarded in a Park" Stolen Rodin piece reappears

Strange robbery

Here's the declaration delivered by... Luis Emilio Onfray,

At the... police station where he returned the piece.

"That today at 9:30 AM approximately,

while taking a walk in Forest Park in Santiago,

taking photos he says, specifically,

that moment he noticed that, in a patch,

there were some nylons,

and in the middle of them was a sculpture,

which I picked up and wrapped in my sweatshirt,

and then put away in my bag,"

reads the declaration.

It was an improbable version, I'd say.

Which was a good thing.

A weak version of the facts often offers a strong suspect.

The two of us entered the office where the suspect was,

and he looked very nervous.

That was my first impression of him.

During that conversation I...

I told him why I think he was lying...

because if he is an art student, who has been studying for 3 years,

and who also attended Rodin's exhibition that night,

He could not pretend he did not know what it was

In other words, he always knew what he had in his hands

So... that's when he begins to contradict himself,

and starts to feel like...

Like he's trapped on his lie.

–When we got there,

Luis Onfray was...

In a manner of speaking, the hero of the day.

When we left,

what we had was a confessed accused.

University student

confessed

theft

Ok, Emilio, we are shooting.

I´m ready to roll

I have to stare at you or the camera?

I'm in the same clothes as yesterday.

Sorry, man.

–Try not to put your hand there, the mic—

–Ah, alright. Got it, man.

I won't touch the shirt again.

A very... special young man.

I mean, he wasn't... a university student yes,

but he was quite outside

of what's considered a normal student.

If you tell me how old is Luis Emilio, then I'll tell you "that many years"

that means I know him from his whole life

because his family is practically my second family

Do you wanna hit him, too?

Just hit me at once.

Look, look, it doesn't hurt him. Watch–

A woman hasn't hit me yet.

1, 2, 3

Again, again!

The adolescent Luis Emilio was a stray bullet.

he was abnormally hyperactive...

constantly.

He always had ideas, and went out, and got back late.

And later, when he was already a young adult,

he didn't go back.

And so it began, "Where's Emilio?"

The calls began...

Well, that exhibit, like the majority of exhibitions in Chile,

the opening was pretty crowded.

I had the urge to go to the bathroom

The bathroom was in the basement.

Like, there was a staircase down to it.

And I came across a completely abandoned, dark environment,

which was very different from...

what was going on above,

it was the opposite.

I don't know why, I walked toward a specific point

and I came across the Torso of Adele.

There was an encounter.

And you can't say there wasn't an encounter because there was.

I was heading to the bathroom,

I didn't go to the bathroom, I went there...

No alarms went off, nothing went off.

I picked it up as if it was mine,

and put it in my bag like it was the best treasure

I'd ever found in the world.

It was just right.

It was the day.

I didn't think twice,

because I already knew it.

I didn't think twice,

I already knew it.

According to the version that L.E Onfray

gave to La Segunda newspaper,

which was the only media he ever gave an interview...

"It was a random act" "no, I'm not nervous"

After taking the piece from the Fine Arts Museum,

he went to the surrounding area of the building, which is Forest Park

-"How did it feel having it?" -"It's quite a special sensation."

And, sitting on a bench, according to this source,

"a unique object"

"a connection"

He stares at it, he touches it, and just then...

he began to size up what he'd done,

even though at that point he still don't know which piece he had.

And what he then does is he takes a taxi, and brings the piece home in the same backpack

-"Who else knew about this?" -"There's nobody else involved, it was just me..."

That day, it wasn't invite-only,

it was free to enter,

so it was chaotic.

I checked out the exhibit, I didn't see anyone,

and at some point I leave the Museum of Fine Arts

of Fine Arts, I walk down the stairs,

and suddenly, there, Luis leaves the Museum,

excited, jumpy, and he says,

"Let's go have some wine, on me."

I was like, "Alright, let's go."

After we bought the wine,

we were sitting down, and suddenly,

and says, "Look...

I have a Rodin."

I couldn't believe it. 20 kilograms,

a Rodin in bronze,

and I looked at it, he took it from me,

I took it back,

and nothing more than adoring the piece in front of us.

Then we got up, put it back in his bag, and went to Forest Park.

There was no one, no one in the park–

well, there was a street-maintenance man,

I don't know what he was doing there at that hour.

At one point I said to him,

"Hey, know what, you'd better hide this,

throw it away," I started to...

to think a litte bit.

You're going to hear many different versions.

So far.

One, that...

they had tried to sell the sculpture on Ahumada Street,

to buy alcohol.

Which is pretty funny.

and I thought, "What would Rodin think if he were alive?"

That in such a remote country his sculpture was stolen,

to be exchanged for alcohol, as I understand,

on a public street, at night.

Maybe he'd be happy.

What rumors do I know about the Rodin case?

For example, I heard it was like...

The exhibit ended,

he met up with some friends outside,

and he says "What up, bro!"

Classic Chilean slang: "What up, 'weon'! How ya doin'?"

"Good! Look what I got!" Bam!

It's like, "Why?!" You know?

"But alright, it's already here, so whatever.

Now let's go drink."

So they went with a group of friends,

to one of their apartments nearby...

They were there in the apartment,

it was completely through the roof...

and a Rodin sculpture in the center of the table.

Anyway, here's another rumor.

So they were partying,

and...

and one individual reaches into his magic pocket,

takes out a baggie,

and so he says, "Man, what are we doing?

I mean, let's do it like the Kings.

So, on this nude body,

by Rodin, the Torso of Adele in the center,

whoosh.

Actually I also think it's a nice image.

–Obviously they arrested me,

and it was one of the most humiliating things

that's happened to me

Being shackled and tied up.

Police Headquarter, Independencia

And then they shut me in a cell.

It was pretty lonely, cold, a damp night,

In the morning I heard this:

A cop, like 6'3" tall,

and he goes,

"You the jerk who shamed the country?"

and I told him, "Yes."

And then they put me in a van

and they brought me to the courthouse.

And there, dude, they put me in a common cell,

like where they put EVERYONE.

The men were here,

and a couple of women here,

and the cops, and everything dark... dark.

And over here, everyone was shackled together.

And they called your name,

And eventually they called mine,

And I reach out my arm and shout, "Please get me out of here!"

and the lawyer had the last name Pinochet.

And I said, "I'm fucked."

He asked me, "You're the man?"

and I said, "Yes, I am the man,"

and he picked up the phone, click,

and, in less than a minute,

in less than a minute,

A guy showed up about 6'4" or more,

and he goes "Hi, how are you?"

I'm Luis Masferrer, your lawyer.

Tell me everything that happened in two minutes, or less"

–I saw a very scared boy,

and he was giving an account,

which in my judgement, and my first impression,

was very genuine,

and astounding of what

it was going to be heard, in minutes, at the hearing,

regarding what his motivation was

for taking the Torso of Adele.

With nearly an hour-long delay,

the detention hearing began

in the case of the young man referred to as initials L.E.O.F.,

20 years of age–

–This is like the throne where the judge was,

and the whole prosecution entourage as well,

there were millions of people,

and in the back, too.

Millions, millions, millions...

Public Ministry?

Andrés Baytelman, Your Honor.

I'm joined by the victims in this case.

Could you state your names, please?

My name is Alejandro Molina Valdivieso,

I'm the curator of the Rodin retrospective in Chile.

My name is Milan Ivelic,

I'm the director of the National Fine Arts Museum,

Very well.

The detainee is present. His information, please.

Luis Emilio Onfray Fabres.

Occupation?

Student.

Poor little guy.

The impression I had of him?

That he was a kid.

He was a common, average kid,

he wasn't a seasoned criminal,

or a specialist in theft or art theft, clearly.

Well, Your Honor,

We are investigating Mr. Luis for having stolen this work of art

It is part of the case that this theft was due to a deliberate plan,

regarding this Exhibition.

–And the defense?

What the defense holds...

that no motivation for profit existed.

That said, on with the following:

This is Luis Emilio Onfray Fabres

he has a critical perspective of art

in which he wants to show the duality

between the present and the absent,

and to show the vulnerability

of the art museums in our country.

It-it was like, yeah, you're kidding me.

First, you stole a Rodin, which could only happen in Chile,

then, you returned it,

and you told me this whole story

that you found in in Forest Park,

and later, you tell the prosecution, the court,

the media, and through them, the people, Chilean society,

that actually, you stole it because

you wanted to demonstrate something

that had to do with art and your academic formation.

Nah.

And then I said "this is the icing on the cake"...

the guy was a "punga" with rhetoric

It was a project on Vulnerability,

in which he wanted to show

the duality between the absent and the present.

and his way to manifest that was,

"Can a work of art be present and absent at the same time, though it is not?"

"Can a work of art be present and absent at the same time, though it is not?"

–And I remember hearing a lot of laughter

that would seem like, "listen to the nonsense he's proposing,"

but when this began to gain momentum,

it began to be accepted even by the judge,

that laughter turned to silence,

and what begins to be heard

is the murmur of "Here comes the news story."

I don't remember having disqualified this as being an act of art.

I wasn't unfamiliar with that.

I remember, at the very least,

that what I concluded,

was that, in order to realize the "art action",

the crime had to be committed,

and the crime, for us...

...had to be punished,

or was at least worthy of investigation.

He's free as of now,

which means absolutely nothing

regarding whether or not the process will continue.

"[The one] who took the sculpture is an ignoramus"

Dude who stole sculpture claims its an "art performance"

Theft of Rodin affects Chile's image internationally

The theft of the Rodin piece caused such a stir that...

it was linked by some media outlets with another important even

with similar characteristics that occurred at the beginning of the 80's

In mid-October of last year,

installed in front of the National Fine Arts Museum

here in our capital

was the sculpture by artist Humberto Nilo called "Apuntes".

It consisted of a beach chair situated on an iron platform,

which also had a pyramid, and a plant.

The chair sculpture by Humbero Nilo

was like a kind of attack.

Because to many people it seemed absolutely absurd,

That an object like a beach chair could become a sculpture.

What's your opinion?

Everytime I walked by I thought the chair was abandoned

while they cleaned or organized,

but now I'm told it was a monument and I find it absurd.

Truly, I find it very, very esoteric that...

I don't understand what it's trying to say.

I think this is an attack. An actual attack on art.

This could never compare to Modern art.

Original and very empty.

What does the chair symbolize?

It doesn't represent anything.

It's only an idea put out there.

And are you satisfied with that work, or not?

I'm satisfied, now more than ever because

I know that it's creating a conflict... a cultural conflict,

of a plastic culture, which in this country,

is quite behind.

The argument around it originated

in the impressions of one of our commentators,

writer Enrique Lafourcade.

It's 7 PM and the "vulgarity" is still here,

in front of the Fine Arts Museum.

The director of the museum has said publicly

that as long as she is director of the Fine Arts Museum,

this artifact is going to stay where it is,

in this place of honor,

beside the great sculpture of Rebeca Matte.

This morning, the chair was uprooted

by unknown suspects,

who left only the bolts.

This is something very interesting because,

this was a time when saying "A sculpture was stolen,"

the first thing you'd think

is, "A sculpture was caused to disappear."

That is, here, in this time, 1981-82–

They were times when people were taken from their homes,

and were never brought back.

–How do you feel after hearing this information?

I'm not surprised by the act itself,

because it could perfectly well form part of the piece.

Imagining a "happening" or an art action.

But, yes, the act itself of vandalism is another thing,

which is a product of misinformation

and a lack of culture in this country.

You're a suspect, Enrique.

Well, the first suspect is obvious but

I would've stolen the whole thing;

they only stole the seat,

they left the platform, the cactus, and a pyramid

But even in the supposed case,

in some kind of momentary insanity,

in which I would have stolen this seat,

What would I do with it in my house?

That's the question I have.

Or what is the thief going to do with this chair?

Responding to an anonymous call to our press department

about the location of the chair,

which this morning was stolen

from the Fine Arts Museum,

we've arrived here to the Lo Saldes bridge,

and we've proven that, effectively,

it's under a willow tree

near the Vitacura Roundabout...

"Art Avengers' Command" tossed it in the Mapocho [River].

...and a document that reads,

"To citizens of Santiago, the country, everyone,

We return the chair as a warning and not as a an apology.

Hopefully from this patriotic act,

some conclusions have been reached.

Among them, that our nation's art

must be a reason for national pride,

and not for embarrassment and shamelessness.

The night I went to the...

...to see the Sergio Castillo exhibit,

the guard was explaining everything to me,

he reminded me what had happened,

and on my way out of the museum he goes,

"And I have the photo of the boy,"

because apparently they had it posted

to avoid him entering again.

So he gave me this paper yesterday,

which I was looking at, which has on it his ID number,

so here's the face of this young man...

but here he's 10 years younger.

Everything was in order.

Ranges of equilibrium,

ranges of arousal,

and ranges...

of something particularly Chilean, I think,

A sort of...

taste for other's stuff

The taxi dropped me off at my house.

There I looked at it... completely.

A magnificent piece.

He even smoked a cigarette observing the Torso of Adele.

–Isolated from the world,

From what I remember he said,

"It was the sculpture...

me, and my project."

My first reaction was to draw.

Later, obviously tired, I fell asleep.

I got up in the morning,

and I kept seeing it.

And of course,

the dream ended.

And then, the second phase,

which was also part of the project:

Turning on the TV,

and trying to see the impact this was having.

"Jocelyn pleas emotionally to Carlos and promises to change"

Maybe you...

think...

I did it, and...

and it hurts you and–

–Carlos. We'd like to ask you for a compromise,

and leave you two to talk in private

because there's a lot you have to resolve,

and this is the first step.

Before that we're going to cut to the news,

I want to ask you for just a moment,

because we have contact right now with The 24 Report.

How are you? Good afternoon.

Breaking news coming from the Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago,

where we're told of the theft

of a valuable piece by French sculptor Auguste Rodin.

Live from the center of the capital,

journalist Alejandro Vega.

Alejandro, do we know what piece has been stolen?

Every channel was showing the same thing, and I...

watching.

But from the perspective of a spectator.

Not as an artist who did the work...

but as a spectator,

seeing what was happening,

like a voyeur.

A piece esimated to be worth around 500,000 Euros.

More information about this and other news

in the main edition of 24 Hours,

and now returning to Martin and Barbara in "Passions".

My main idea...

was to keep it a few days,

many more days,

15 days at least,

and do another circuit as well.

And when I saw the media hype that my Action caused,

it was really complicated for me.

Very complex. I said,

"What do I do?"

The trip to the police station was very chaotic.

It was very fast...

but it was confusing, so confusing,

there were a million things going through my head.

Ideas like, they are going to lock me up, dude.

Anyway, when you're 20, it's like your mind goes wild

It's like...

So, I arrived to the police station ... and I said to them,

"You know what? I found this."

to not get involved in a legal issue...

That was my biggest fear, being in a legal issue,

and being locked up.

and that scared me... the law.

The law scared me.

Because they perfectly could have

sentenced me to five years and a day

for theft, and I am not a thief.

I am an artist.

Art is a fantasy.

A fantasy and at the same time, unproductive

I always try to highlight the golden

"Gold", like the gold.

because gold is a fantasy

and I like to provoke a fantasy.

This is a work that I really like

because when I did it, it was October 12,

In which I appear as some sort...

of aboriginal or native person,

And then a priest appears, who is a tattoo artist,

and he tattooed me on my right rib

the words "Son of God,"

connecting the culture and Catholicism.

One day Emilio discovered this fetus in my home

and...

he stared at it...

and I think he instantly conceived his Work

This work,

I find it great. I find it beautiful, it has lots of harmony

Because...

The fetus is dead,

but it's organic,

and the lettuce has roots that feed it...

and it's also organic,

So here, I get a feeling of a relation between...

life and death

as a first impression.

In a second reading,

there is a relation between the seed and germination,

and thirdly,

I think there's a relation between...

Turn on life...

and maintaining it with the promise that it's going to end.

I can´t stand the shame, I ask God to forgive me

I acted desperately

under the influence of alcohol

I'm not okay, I know that you're not okay either,

I know that we need each other

I'll get back on my feet. Don't be scared, I'll keep my distance,

I won't drink another drop of alcohol

until I recover my balance.

I'll work hard until I overcome my violent tendencies

Without a doubt...

Emilio has an addiction-prone personality–

for the use and abuse of substances.

When I talk I feel, like, good.

–When you talk?

–'Cuz talking's great, you know?

–Yeah.

–It's like, dude, man, when you talk...

–And you feel like a person, you know?

But sometimes words, to me, like,

words fall short for me. You know?

–The words aren't enough for you so—

–If another word existed, dude,...

for "I love you", I'd say it, man.

–That's what artists do, invent words in images...

things that can't be expressed, you know?

And those words are the things I do,

the paintings I do

A work...

there are many works created under the influence of alcohol,

such as all of the literature of Edgar Allan Poe

or that of Baudelaire with hash,

It's not good feelings that make great literature or art...

Transgression and art are totally compatible

They even go together.

So if it was under the effects of alcohol,

maybe it was what Emilio needed

to remove those "mathematical pains" from above.

Rainer Maria Rilke - Augusto Rodin

"Many monuments of Rodin, have gone to America

and the most mature of all of them was destroyed

in the occasion of riots in Chile,

even before it was erected;

It was the horseback monument to General Lynch."

Rodin liked this request right away,

because it was the first time that he was confronted

with an equestrian figure;

He worked hard in this labor.

The miniature was sent to Chile.

Unfortunately, the Chilean Fine Arts Committee didn't like it.

Rodin has the habit of using

these sculptures that were not finished

to make others,

and Patricio Lynch's horse,

became a centaur.

Like the idea that Rodin has something to do with Chile

So there's no greater classist arrogance,

we are almost like cousins of Rodin.

If there's something that fascinates Chileans,

it's saying, "No, we have something to do with history!"

"We had to do with Rodin,"

"We had to do with Darwin,"

almost like, "If Darwin hadn't seen the Patagonian fox,

he wouldn't have written the evolution theory."

So this is a thing....I understand it because we all have experienced it, me too

I'd love to know that I had an aunt who knew a cousin who knew some random hero,

or that it's possible that some last name came from...

We have it, it has to do with the narration, with our own history, with how

we tell the story to ourselves,

and we are fascinated by the idea of a man like Rodin,

trying to participate in a petty contest of this country that used to be rich,

because of the saltpeter, and sure, why not?

It could have been. The thing is, that we didn't have the vision in that moment.

When did you find out that this robbery didn't correspond to an art action

and how did you felt about that?

I never knew it was an art action.

It was a rumor I've heard from the students and some teachers

I saw it as more of an impulsive act, in the moment.

I don't have more information about it.

I understand that there are some texts; which I've never read,

regarding the justification of that "art action".

This text came from the computer of Luis Emilio Onfray

In fact, the district attorney is told

that there is a computer: CPU, tower, etc.

to be confiscated, so that they can investigate

and see that the art action project existed before the hearing.

and we obtained the three documents you well know...

and we obtained the three documents you well know...

and the first file is dated June 10th...

and it refers explicitly to Rodin...

one week before the theft...

One week before he had no way of foreseeing

about the lights turn off,

the non-infrarred cameras,

the fact that it wouldn't be guarded,

that no weight sensor was on,

that the gallery wouldn't be locked,

to put it this way, with...

with every conceivable safeguard for an exhibition of that magnitude..

completely absent.

In other words...

"opportunity".

An opportunity, furthermore, enabled by...

chance!

Project "Systems of Vulnerability". Luis Emilio Onfray F.

Museum as stroll, comma, transit. Work:

Acquire an sculpture during a period of 14 days (two weeks).

and see what happens (social response, intrigue from the language, the oral...

where), questions of, "why and how did he do it?"

and the importance that it establishes,

specifically the art audience,

and the public that interacts with the sculpture

Three phases of the project:

Violate the vigilant eye, comma,

but without intentions of robbery–

–but without intentions of robbery or theft, or damage.

Just a loan for a limited time.

An initial loan, start of the publicity.

It's the start of the unthinkable, the unestablished

Lost of the value as a lesson, desire to represent absence,

Establish the concern as an object of dialogue,

as a non-present representation of the image in the social sphere

Course! (media coverage of the work...

as public)

end of the project, even more public!

They don't know the meaning of established unacceptable conduct,

it's illogical to give more information about such.

Rodin.

as a figure, dash, absent image, comma, that emerges,

comma, as pretext, comma,

The model is always a pretext to derivate in my interests,

that I want to express.

Theft: notion of borrowing as a social-artistic

gesture of raising consciousness

and cultural opinion of the work.

Importance:

Loss brings back to the memory what is missing.

This phrase I think– Look,

I read this the other day, a while ago...

The last phrase stayed with me. And everything else too...

Loss... brings back... to the memory... what is missing.

Let's see.

He wants to represent the absence

like Saint Paul when arrives to the Agora of Athens.

and he finds that there's an empty pedestal

so he would be celebrating the emptiness

with the empty pedestal of that work,

so, some sort of homage to immaterial art.

I have a very simple example in mind:

the first mosques built

are attributed to Byzantine artesans

who were used to building churches,

in which the walls had alcoves,

alcoves designed to harbor sculptures...

As you know,

Islam is a religion that radically rejects imagery...

But the idea of the alcoves in mosques has been preserved.

Today, mosques have an empty space in the direction of Mecca

and which manifests, through absence,

the presence of a God that can't be represented.

It's like when you have someone next to you all the time

and you have it, you have it. You have it, until you lose it, and

just then, you start to appreciate it,

so then it's like, "oh, I should have appreciated it more."

"Why isn't in here?"

"It weighs on me," "I still feel it," "It pains me,"...

It happens to me with my mother.

and it happens to all human beings with their loved ones.

one says, "Ah, why I didn't do that?"

and others tell you that when they're not there, they're there,

Because you can talk to them

You remember. You know how they rationalized, you can exchange...

Well, there are many theories about that. And that's okay for philosophy,

It's OK for the consciousness, It's OK for the heart.

But it's not okay for the organization of society.

That's not acceptable as guideline for the organization of society.

Because it can be done easier:

You can hide the work, deliberately, so its gone.

And to feel what happens,

but to go and steal it? No.

I don't want to talk about that. Don't mention it.

Because it's too present in a difficult time of my life,

that's not related with things but with human beings.

My husband died a month ago, and I can say he's present,

but not more present.

Perhaps I'm saying, very pedantically, something very banal,

We all know absence creates desire,

and that many of us...

are unhappy in love

when the person leaves us 1,000 km away,

that when we get slapped

at least for me.

My name is Luis Emilio Onfray Fabres.

...my father was never with me...

Onfray

Who is Emilio's father?

A person...

I have never seen

and that...

doesn't exist to me.

I don't know if he exists to Emilio

For me he doesn't exist.

what I remember about him were...

good memories too...

going out and eating hot dogs with juice.

One time he hit me I remember.

and I think that the relationship with my mother started to decay, logically,

until they reach a point of no-return, and well, he went away

I stopped seeing him when I was 8.

...every month I went to cash a check.

That day my mom went with me

because the check was late in several days,

So...

the cashier told us, "This person is dead"

This is called "I am thirsty and there's no water"

Emilio, think about it!

I'm not Onfray. I am not Onfray.

I don't know, Onfray is a rare last name, is not common.

My dad is French, my mom is Chilean,

but I can't give credit as an artist to a person who was never there

but I give it to my mom and her family

Fabres

Emilio Fabres.

There is a story about Emilio where he suffered a lot, so double applause please.

I decided to change my last name when I started showing.

And then I said, sure "Emilio Fabres" is my name

it's my gratitude, and I am what I am thanks to the family

One day, on the evening or during the night maybe, Emilio came.

and I started to talk to Emilio about an old thesis

that has resurfaced nowadays.

There are papers recently published

All of our cells, absolutely all of them

contain a cytoplasmic organelle named mitochondria

The feminine zygote, the oocyte 2, has mitochondria,

and our spermatozoids also have mitochondria,

but when the spermatozoid comes and inserts itself on the oocyte 2,

something makes the mitochondria in the spermatozoid get destroyed.

This is a fact of incalculable curiosity and value

because it means that if we look at our cells,

we have mitochondria from our mother,

whether we're a man or a woman,

and if we follow genetically the mitochondria of our mothers back in history,

we are going to find, to put it in words, "the first mother"

Of course...

Emilio looked at me, with his lost eyes

and he said to me...

"mitochondrial"

MITOCHONDRIAL, Emilio Fabres June 3 - 24, 2011

Mitochondrial is a work that plays with part of my identity,

particularly my family from my mother's side

and that is why I made a performance

in which I appeared with my mothers panties,

some photos of my grandmother, a nightstand, a very intimate atmosphere,

and in which I shaved most of my body...

annulling the paternal gene,

Why do you think Emilio did this extremist work of art?

I think Emilio did this expression to...

punish his mother.

To say to her...

that he was existing during all this time

...without a father

It can be made to say everything to a biography.

That is, what you tell me about the loss of a parent and the relationship with the theft...

I have no doubt that the life of an artist influences his work,

in the same way that our lives influence what we do day by day

But I would not risk talking about the psychoanalytic interpretation of an act like that

That seems a little risky to me

After more than a month of confusion related to the disappearance of the Torso of Adele

finally perpetrator Luis Onfray Fabres, has a sentence.

The agreement was made only a few hours before the hearing

after long conversations between the implicated, with the aim of finding a solution.

He was an "easy to reintegrate" type of guy, who showed...

genuine regret. I believe.

I hope these apologies serve to express my genuine repentance

and serve to transmit to others that the cultural heritage,

Art and institutions that promote it must be protected.

It could have been many years in jail,

but the defense and the prosecution agreed

an exemplary sentence.

During one year, the college student should work in the penitentiary's library

This was the main condition, so to speak,

and I was not available to accept this in anywhere else but prison

but in this case the value was not to do "community work in favor of the prisoners"

It was to put him face-to-face...

with his next destiny

in the case that he thought that what he did was not that serious

and if the idea crossed his mind...

of another project...

of art.

After working a year at the penitentiary's library, Luis Emilio Onfray Fabres was indefinitely dismissed.

This shop used to be named "Rembrandt".

My bosses were going to close it...

but I wanted to continue in this because I liked it.

There were no obstacles.

The next day I was here, with the key in my hand, working,

but the only thing that they didn't allow me to keep was the name.

So, I started to look for a new one.

And it occurred to me because of the robbery that was...in the museum

When they came here with the exhibition.

it sounded good to me...

to keep the R. "Rodin".

Since June 16th the Torso of Adele hasn't figured

into the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts

However, the Museum Board

reinforced the security measures

-Which is your favorite sculpture?

-"The Kiss"...

But I'm also curious to see The Torso of Adele as well.

The Adele. I used it, because...

I took it from what I considered to be a marketing campaign,

So... I also used it as marketing.

It changed lot...

before the theft and after it...

the influx of... of the public.

And the rows for entrance were packed because people...

were curious.

And here in this photo you can appreciate that there are tons of people

but the funny thing here, what we tried to show...

that the pedestal where the Torso of Adele was, was empty

but everyone was saying, "Oh, look, the one that kid stole was here."

The absence is a strong element,

and if we go back to the story that I was narrating previously, about the stolen Gioconda

and if we go back to the story that I was narrating previously, about the stolen Gioconda

There are many images of newspapers in 1911 or 1912

that only showed the bolts,

where the painting used to be,

because they bore witness,

in a marvelous way, the absence of a treasured object.

The phenomenon that you described that happened in Chile, occurred in Paris.

The phenomenon that you described that happened in Chile, occurred in Paris.

That is, the visitants came to see the absent Mona Lisa,

with more than 300,000 visits in 3 months

Today the exhibit ended, in the Fine Arts Museum,

of the French sculptor, Rodin.

This is an historical phenomenon. This is the most visited exposition in Chile.

"Rodin bids farewell to Chile smashing a record"

Masterpieces are solely the way in which they're constructed, contemplated,

invented as masterpieces.

Because masterpieces don't exist self-contained

like in the case of the Mona Lisa, that created...

of a mystique that surrounds a work of art.

Because, as you know, the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1910.

And it became the Mona Lisa thanks to the robbery.

The "Artistic Manifesto" of the Torso of Adele's thief, was accomplished.

One week after the embarrassing robbery at the Fine Arts Museum,

Rodin's sculpture is present, while at the same time not being present.

The lost brings back to the memory what is not there.

If it was what he proposed...

he did it.