{"id":985,"date":"2020-07-17T06:31:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T04:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/?page_id=985"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:32:25","slug":"in-permanent-danger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/en\/in-permanent-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"In permanent danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-985 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-the-new-warriors.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"898\" src=\"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-the-new-warriors.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-the-new-warriors.jpg 900w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-the-new-warriors-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-the-new-warriors-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-the-new-warriors-768x766.jpg 768w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-the-new-warriors-570x570.jpg 570w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-the-new-warriors-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1-the-new-warriors-700x698.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-436'>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1. The New Warriors<\/strong><br> Japanese porcelain plate, Chinese blue, underglaze, 1250\u00b0C.<br> 45 cm \u00d8 x 3 cm.<br> Yingge Ceramic Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan<br> 2015\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2-dolores-del-alma.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"921\" src=\"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2-dolores-del-alma.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2-dolores-del-alma.jpg 900w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2-dolores-del-alma-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2-dolores-del-alma-768x786.jpg 768w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2-dolores-del-alma-700x716.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-437'>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2. The Sorrows of the Soul<\/strong><br> Earthenware plate, 2 cm high x 40 \u00d8 cm<br> Painted with cobalt blue on bisque-fired ceramic at 1000\u00b0C, clear glazed at 1050\u00b0C.<br> 2006<br> Collection of the Montblanc City Council, Tarragona. Spain\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/3-14-de-septiembre.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/3-14-de-septiembre.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/3-14-de-septiembre.jpg 900w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/3-14-de-septiembre-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/3-14-de-septiembre-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/3-14-de-septiembre-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/3-14-de-septiembre-570x570.jpg 570w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/3-14-de-septiembre-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/3-14-de-septiembre-700x700.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-438'>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3. September 14th<\/strong><br> Earthenware plate<br> 2 x 31 \u00d8 cm.<br> Black pigment underglaze, 1050\u00b0C.<br> 2008\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/4-la-ciudad-controlada.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/4-la-ciudad-controlada.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/4-la-ciudad-controlada.jpg 900w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/4-la-ciudad-controlada-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/4-la-ciudad-controlada-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/4-la-ciudad-controlada-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/4-la-ciudad-controlada-570x570.jpg 570w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/4-la-ciudad-controlada-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/4-la-ciudad-controlada-700x700.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-439'>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4. The Controlled City<\/strong><br> Japanese porcelain plate, Chinese blue, underglaze, 1250\u00b0C.<br> 45 \u00d8 cm. x 3 cm.<br> Yingge Ceramic Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan<br> Private Collection 2015\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/5-vamos-a-contar-mentiras.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1050\" src=\"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/5-vamos-a-contar-mentiras.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/5-vamos-a-contar-mentiras.jpg 700w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/5-vamos-a-contar-mentiras-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/5-vamos-a-contar-mentiras-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-440'>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5. Let&#8217;s Tell Lies<\/strong><br> Earthenware vase with lid<br> 60 x 33 \u00d8 cm.<br> Black pigment underglaze. 1050\u00baC.<br> 2013<br> Private Collection\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/6-la-verdad.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1050\" src=\"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/6-la-verdad.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/6-la-verdad.jpg 700w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/6-la-verdad-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/6-la-verdad-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-441'>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6. The Truth<\/strong><br> Roll-thrown majolica vase with cobalt blue underglaze,<br> 70 cm high x 33 \u00d8 cm. 1050\u00baC. 2010<br> Collection of the Esplugues d&#8217;Llobregat City Council, Barcelona, Spain\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/7-la-vida-es-sue\u00f1o.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1136\" src=\"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/7-la-vida-es-sue\u00f1o.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/7-la-vida-es-sue\u00f1o.jpg 700w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/7-la-vida-es-sue\u00f1o-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/7-la-vida-es-sue\u00f1o-631x1024.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-442'>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7. Life is a Dream<\/strong><br> Japanese porcelain. Chinese blue underglaze, 1250\u00baC.<br> 67 x 21 \u00d8 cm diameter.<br> 2015<br> Collection of the Yingge Ceramic Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/8-for-gods-sake.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1018\" src=\"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/8-for-gods-sake.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/8-for-gods-sake.jpg 700w, https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/8-for-gods-sake-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-443'>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8. For God&#8217;s Sake<\/strong><br> Two-piece wheel-thrown majolica<br> 163 x 37 \u00d8 cm. Cobalt blue underglaze, 1050\u00baC.<br> 2008\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]\u201cIn our age there is no such thing as \u2018keeping out of politics\u2019. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>George Orwell<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>1984<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[vc_separator type=&#8217;transparent&#8217; position=&#8217;center&#8217; color=&#8221; thickness=&#8221; up=&#8217;20&#8217; down=&#8217;20&#8217;]<br \/>\n\u201cThere are features of totalitarian regimes that exist in current democratic societies, we give examples of all known: the control of the media turned into propaganda, architectural megalomania, the enormous budgets on arms, showing off the elites, including the monarchies that survive anchored in anachronism, the opacity of the power of financial institutions,&#8230; All these mechanisms of oppression, dilute our decision making, key to our political autonomy, and convert social facts in an inevitable fate that no one is responsible for creating an ethical vacuum occupied by impunity. You can only wonder what has happened, not who it was.[vc_separator type=&#8217;transparent&#8217; position=&#8217;center&#8217; color=&#8221; thickness=&#8221; up=&#8221; down=&#8221;]To regain the freedom we have to cover what is done and control it is use, and integrate objects and actions in the immediate environment, to know where we live, who governs us, what do we die or who kill us, is to recognize as our own executioners, fascinated by the lights of the big city, the elegance of the Prime Minister and the impressive war machine. Victims of the disproportion of the buildings, the mendacity of the ruling and bombing in a discriminated way; to decide is the right social lifesustaining only if each individual takes responsibility and if it goes unpunished. If you disappear as autonomous subjects of compromised decision, the space of both public and private will be overwhelmed by the Anonymous: Body Politics, International Organization, Telecommunications Company, Corporate Financial&#8230;[vc_separator type=&#8217;transparent&#8217; position=&#8217;center&#8217; color=&#8221; thickness=&#8221; up=&#8221; down=&#8221;]If god exists, everything is permitted. And God is not dead.[vc_separator type=&#8217;transparent&#8217; position=&#8217;center&#8217; color=&#8221; thickness=&#8221; up=&#8221; down=&#8221;]In Permanent Danger is a project that creates an unusual iconography in decorative ceramics. They are not the reasons hagiographic and mythical Greco-Roman pottery, nor the drawings ornamental bowls, plates and vases, ceramics in all cultures. The work of Monsalvatje captures, with cobalt blue, paradoxically harmonic chaos. The features of the horror, as outlined above, become a brilliant and hypnotic visual work.[vc_separator type=&#8217;transparent&#8217; position=&#8217;center&#8217; color=&#8221; thickness=&#8221; up=&#8221; down=&#8221;]It is not a flag of commitment, the complaint or indignation, but a work commitment, since their beginning in dissecting the memory of societies recovering in a symbolic taxonomytaxonomy, like illustrated encyclopedic labor, in which we don\u2019t want to know what it defines, and shapes our lives in permanent danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Juan Vich<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;] [\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]\u201cIn our age there is no such thing as \u2018keeping out of politics\u2019. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.\u201d George&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-985","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/985\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xaviermonsalvatje.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}