The "Guernica" and its unlimited ability to pull people ...

The 'Guernica' is not played (From "El país")


"If the board of trustees has agreed not to move, the controversy is over," says Gonzalez-Sinde - A statement from the Reina Sofia says that the move would be "treason"




Guernica and its unlimited ability to pull people (a painting worth a million visitors a year is no more paint) will remain within the walls of the Reina Sofia. The meeting held yesterday by the Trustees of the museum with the assistance of the Minister of Culture, Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, closed, at least for now, any chance of moving the work of Pablo Picasso. It is thus off the project that germinated in the office of Miguel Zugaza, director of the Prado Museum, sought to place the Guernica in the Hall of Realms of the Army Museum with The shootings on May 3, Goya, and The Surrender of Breda by Velazquez as part of a pictorial reflection on war and peace.




He had come to talk about another bombing of Guernica but will not reach the blood stream. Manuel Borja-Villel stays with his most cherished possession, although he said yesterday after the Board meeting, he was not winning anything: "There was never the case. There are no winners or losers, because there is no serious discrepancy issue . In the nearby museum, the Prado, Zugaza chose silence and declined comment.


Quote of the day was delivered just minutes before the start of the meeting, Culture Minister: "On the Guernica only decides the patronage of Queen Sofia. And if they agreed not to move, the controversy is over. What is here is said is definite, "said Angela Gonzalez-Sinde.



After its two long hours of meeting with the minister and outside the building, Borja-Villel issued a statement on behalf of those attending the meeting, not attended by Plácido Arango, president, also the patronage of the Prado Museum.


Manuel Borja-Villel turned to the history of the painting and its links with the museum, as an essential for the future. The voices of employers seconded with enthusiasm and determination the director of the Queen's intervention, to the point of describing as "betrayal" of the possible transfer of the work.


The statement begins by recalling that patronage Guernica "a copyrighted work of the Spanish State, attached to the Permanent Collection, as its most valuable and iconic piece." "Her delicate condition," the report says, "and its large size prevents any type of removal from the museum, which is why this work has never been given to any institution. And this situation has not changed, but above However, the Guernica is the centerpiece in the collection. "


Employers added in its statement that in Guernica and the Pavilion of the Republic brings together key elements for the history of art that are distinct from the Reina Sofia, not only at present but "from the early history of the Museum" .


For them, the Guernica "marks the point of view that gives perspective to a whole era to witness the traumatic end of modern experience in Spain", and trench: "In his museum of Guernica MNCARS not conceived as an isolated work but as part of the Pavilion of 1937. "


In what is most telling paragraph in yesterday's statement ensures that the output from the collection of Picasso would mean "a betrayal of their historical specificity, and dismemberment of a set of exceptional significance in the history of world culture contemporaries ". The text was adopted unanimously. Some of the employers said after the meeting that the previous words of the Minister of Culture had been instrumental in preparing a text of this forcefulness.


Asked about the time he met the project's existence to the Hall of Realms of the Army Museum, Gonzalez-Sinde explained: "For months I was in the air, but had to hear many opinions. In the end it resulted in no can do. The controversy is over. " On the initiative of the former directors of Queen Sofia of collecting signatures among experts and historians, the minister was collected and interpreted the feeling of those who have worked at this museum over many years and believe it is a fundamental element .


Not Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde believes that the controversy surrounding the impact on Guernica neither responsible for the first national museums. When asked what place was Miguel Zugaza, the Minister resolved the issue: "In a magnificent place, and continue to do great things."