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Vuelta al camino del buitre: La obra performativa de Gerardo Faustino Barba a la luz de nuevo material de archivo
No full textThis article aims to expand the study and documentation of a work of art that was thought to exist only one photography. We refer specifically to an untitled artistic action carried out by Gerardo Faustino Barba (1960), an artist from Aguascalientes, who, together with Juan Castañeda (1942), an artist, cultural manager, and photographer from Aguascalientes, conceived the performance, which took place in various streets of the city of Aguascalientes in 1984. This image was shown to the public for the first time in 2014 by Castañeda, who posted it on Twitter (now X). This image was also the starting point for the study of the origins of contemporary art in Aguascalientes, which was our doctoral thesis, defended in 2019. In May 2025, Castañeda discovered nine other negatives of that work of art, which were provided to us to give more detail to Barba-Castañeda\u27s work, so that this documentary study, based on a qualitative methodology, is much broader than the one that appeared in the thesis
