As if it were a mirror where their own personal and political fantasies are reflected, Javier Milei has turned a space of the presidential residence into a kind of Pinacoteca in which your figure is repeated In various ways. Sometimes it is a hyperrealistic representation, in others it is a muscular superhero From Anarco Capitalism or, in an anthropomorphic game, its ruling attributes are reflected in the image of a lion that is to fear. The Personal Gallery became the member of social networks above the discussions about fires in Patagonia, the dollar pricepoverty or economic recession. There were scathing, ironic, derogatory comments, alluding to the emotional stability of the president and, also, many supports and expressions of sympathy.
Together with the paintings, reproductions of the ‘Time’ and ‘The Economist’ magazines that led Milei to their covers have been hung in large size. The texts have not been flattering, quite the opposite, especially with regard to the first publication. But the president values the image About the print letter.
One of the most striking images is that the presidential face is accompanied by the body of Wolverine, the X-Men character which actor Hugh Jackman usually interpreted. Known as ‘Logan’, the mutant has senses refined to animals, physical capabilities superior to those of a common man, and three retractable claws in each hand. Milei was designed with the same attributes and with an efficiency that must have flattered it: the painting occupies a preferential place.
Fascination for ‘Marvel’
The fascination of the television exterctulian with one of the figures of the Marvel team is not new. When last December Jon Lee Anderson He interviewed him for ‘The New Yorker’, the hairdresser, presidential stylist and at the same time challenging deputy of the Roundness of the Planet, Lilia Lemoine, explained the nature of the hairstyle that distinguishes it. “He wants a cross between Elvis (Presley) and Wolverine.”
Anderson, looking at him closely, had another cinematographic analogy: Alex, the young man of the bombin and the ducks that exalted Francisco Franco’s blue legion in ‘The mechanical orange ‘, Anthony Burgess’s novel taken to the cinema by Stanley Kubrick. “Milei’s eyes shone and nodded, laughing out loud, and then adopted the complacent again,” he recalled.
Lion King
More than a year after its entrance to the headquarters of the Executive, Milei already has a profuse iconography which hangs within the presidential residence located on the North Buenos Aires periphery but also in disseminated in X and Instagram. The lion is the most usual. The capitalist Anarco began his electoral campaign in the legislative of 2021 with a song of the rock group, La Renga, ‘Panic Show’, in which a feline invites his auditorium to roar his anger. “I don’t come to guide lambs but to wake up lions,” was one of his slogans.
Government’s creative usines usually appeal to artificial intelligence to present to the lion as a portentous force capable of releasing his hammer and hoz people or opening the cage that leads them to freedom. The lion usually has the presidential attributes: the band and the command cane. “In the best Walt Disney styleMilei ended up inventing an idyllic universe where he is the Almighty and takes order and tranquility to the entire community. Propaganda and zoology shake hands in the world of the libertarian superleon, “says the magazine ‘News’.
Other analysts find similarities with the character of the ‘chronicles of Narnia’. In both cases these are fantasy worlds that are of official pleasure. In fact, Milei has just received a Oil portrait of the artist Loreley Portas in which a león exercises your stately domain. The costume designer Roberto Piazza and his partner, Walter Vázquez, delivered it last weekend. The gift receiver had such a good impression that he did not take time to take place in the Pinacoteca. “The president is a super intellectual person and gives me hope for all Argentina, has a vision that comes from another place, not from politics. Support those ideals, “said the author. Portas did not hide her joy to the newspaper ‘La Nación’:” The important thing is the recognition that he has hung it and is in her personal collection, in a private space. “
Effects of political turn
Argentina He has been politically tilted towards the ultra -right. The pendulum sweeps speeches and images of a recent past. In murals that rescue the struggle of the grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo for recovering the children of disappeared, Hitler has just been painted. Some pictures are exhibited on the walls and others are removed.
The Secretariat of Human Rights withdrew on Wednesday from the patio of the cultural center that worked in the excampo of concentration of the School of Mechanics of the Navy (ESMA) a natural size representation of the moment in which the then President Néstor Kirchner ordered that he be removed of the Military College the Table of EXCEDITOR JORGE RAFAEL VIDELA.
“Downloading a poster will not erase the memory,” said the predecessor of bathrooms and the son of disappeared, Horacio Pietragalla, to add: “Today there are more than 1,200 the condemned repressors thanks to those policies of memory truth and justice.” Government not only wants to impose itself in the field of images but in the story of history, especially the drama of the seventies.
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