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Ceramics, Like textile, It is a material closely related to crafts and domestic; Little noble, therefore, To form great sculptures that are admired by the artistic caste. That is why we can consider that using it is a political statement, Even more if it is done in small format sculptures: The small and the domestic can have value as an artistic object. It is one of the conclusions that we can get from this first great retrospective of Simone Fattal In the Spanish State, that comes to accompany the delivery of the Julio González International Prize that they have won since the year 2000 ROUSCHENBERG TALLA ARTIS, Pierre Soulages O Frank Stella. No woman even 2018, year in which Anette Messager broke the roof opening the way they would come later: Mona Hotoum, Carmen Calvo and Simone Fattal.
Fattal declares a literary woman, Hence, the title of this sample drinks from a concept of poet and philosopher (Like her) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “suspension of disbelief”, referring to a reader's ability to accept, Without questioning, Fantastic or unrealistic elements within a fiction work. Apart from mud and sculpture, The narrative is the third leg on which this exhibition is supported, The idea of telling stories. Fattal has not talked with western artists as Pablo Picasso or Francis Bacon did at the time, His dialogue is intimate and interior, And when looking out the culture of the Middle East is fixed: The Sumerian stories, The Arab epic, Sufi poetry and Mesopotamian culture, mythological heroes such as Gilgamesh or vestiges of its laws with the stele of the Hammurabi Code. Also with the Greco -Roman culture. So, Through mud, has shaped warriors, Angels, Centaurs, The Trojan or Agamemnon horse, In figurative sculptures that touch abstraction, where the architectural ruins and fruit and animals figures also fit.
Like poetry, His sculptures are open to diverse interpretations. Fattal says that art is made so that people don't forget, And this characteristic charges more strength does fit in catastrophe times, Because art is created in relation to death, which is the last catastrophe of all. The fate that fattal brings to the Ivam has wanted to brought us while some Valencian regions fight to get rid of it a month after the Dana del Dana 29 October. It also brings innovative and experimental literature published from its post-appointed publisher Press and in scrolls where the letters and score are replaced by drops and ink strokes that close the circle. The first writing records were on ceramic tables, Then came the ink on paper as a means to fix the stories that floated with the words before. Fattal creates container sculptures reports, of ancient and current history that will become history, Great obsessions of the work of this Franco-Libanesa artist who invites us to put aside the certainties. S.M.
