Cristina Ruiz Guiñazú Argentinian / French, b. 1951
Le Manteau de Spinoza, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
92 x 73 cm
Series: Spinoza
Signed and dated verso
£ 3,000.00
The limits of corporeality, the oscillation between life and death, and the transformation into a corpse from the scholium of Ethics V 39 also appear in her work with a political perspective. The vulnerability of the body is portrayed in Le manteau de Spinoza, where a body undresses, a body exposes itself. It is a vulnerable body, perhaps Spinoza's own body, but one that does not fear death. The figure undresses, shows its body as it is, while in the background, before the imminent horror, a girl covers her face not to look. Spinoza's cloak, empty, lies on the ground.
Excerpt from Mario Donoso's essay
The limits of corporeality, the oscillation between life and death, and the transformation into a corpse from the scholium of Ethics V 39 also appear in her work with a political perspective. The vulnerability of the body is portrayed in Le manteau de Spinoza, where a body undresses, a body exposes itself. It is a vulnerable body, perhaps Spinoza's own body, but one that does not fear death. The figure undresses, shows its body as it is, while in the background, before the imminent horror, a girl covers her face not to look. Spinoza's cloak, empty, lies on the ground.
Excerpt from Mario Donoso's essay
Exhibitions
Aleph Contemporary
London Art Fair
2023

