F. CHIRIVELLA SORIANO. Valeriola, 13
It is no coincidence that the Mery Sales exhibition Beings out of field have three reference philosophers. They don't even have to be three women. The pictorial work of the Valencian artist is feminist and has a strong theoretical component., his painting is born from thought, in this case, of pictorial research around three absolutely socially and politically committed philosophers: Hannah Ardendt, María Zambrano and Simon Weil. He already dedicated an exhibition to the first in the Martínez Guerricabeitia room in La Nau five years ago and it is the one that has the most name internationally for having raised blisters in its own Jewish community by narrating the trial for genocide of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann in the book Eichmann in Jerusalem. In this text he coined the well-known expression “banality of evil” referring to a bureaucrat capable of committing the most absolute atrocities out of a pure sense of duty without stopping to reflect on his actions.. For your part, The Malaga intellectual María Zambrano stated that social deformations are the institutionalization of personal deformations and the activist Simone Weil, who fought with the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, He also experienced his own contradictions, as Ardendt. “Ours have shed blood enough. “I am morally complicit”, he wrote in his diary. His theory was that “once temporal and spiritual authorities have decided that the lives of certain people are worthless, "Nothing is as natural to man as killing.". Sales presents fifty works at the Chirivella Soriano Foundation, many unpublished —some painted during confinement—, full of natural symbols (mar, plants, fur, screens…) and portraits that invite the public to acquire critical awareness and get involved. Ardendt, Zambrano and Weil had a rather marginal and misunderstood perspective, hence the title of the exhibition and one of the works in which flowers appear out of place, malheridas, on the side of the road. The artist's painting monkey is the protagonist in part of the tour, with it it symbolizes the fact of getting involved, to go down into the mud, to put yourself in the shoes of those who suffer. In the piece “48 conscious outcasts” eleven anonymous people are portrayed with the monkey who represent the social commitment on which the three philosophers built their lives., next to these anonymous, star in the exhibition organized by the Consorci de Museus at the Palau de Valeriola until October. AU
