The Generalitat avoids political shock and trusts the technical standards to take care of Sijena’s work in Barcelona | Culture | EUROtoday

The Aragonese authorities has been imposed by the judicial battle in order that the unique Romanesque frescoes of the Monastery of Villanueva de Sijena return to the place from the place they left in 1936 with the best way to Barcelona. But all the things signifies that the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC), the place the stays of those murals are exhibited, is not going to but give its arm to twist and exhibit all of the technical standards to protect that heritage inside its partitions. Of course, the Generalitat is stopping the confrontation from returning to the political area and speaks solely of technical standards.

The official place of the museum that homes the works continues to be non -existent and thus will proceed till the extraordinary assembly that subsequent week will rejoice the physique of the company, however this Thursday has already prompt what its technique might be in the identical room the place the work of the thirteenth century relaxation. His head of the Restoration and Preventive Conservation Service, Carme Ramells, has argued that frescoes may hardly resist neither transport vibrations nor the change in environmental circumstances that will imply exhibiting the work within the monastery of Sijena. He stated it could be like activating “a watchmaking pump.”

This system of giving all of the prominence to specialists is what the Catalan authorities appears to additionally desire, who because the publication of the final judgment of the Supreme Court has prevented political rifirrafe with the Aragonese authorities. The personal presidentSalvador Illa, has defended from Japan, the place he’s on the official journey, his intention to respect the sentence and depart the response to the MNAC, which implies trusting it to technical draft standards, though it have to be taken under consideration that the museum’s efficiency will depend on the three political actors that govern its governing physique: the Generalitat, the City Council of Barcelona and the Ministry of Culture.

Museum sources level out, nevertheless, that the place of the Government and the Ministry of Culture might be important. There are precedents. In 2022 a report from the Ministry of Culture rejected that the Lady of Elche may return to her metropolis when verifying after a technical report that her switch would have “catastrophic consequences” accelerating her degradation. The Iberian determine continues within the National Archeology Museum, in Madrid. At the second, the pinnacle of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, was restricted this Thursday to affirm his hope of with the ability to “decide, in a shared and joint way, the steps to be taken, always for the protection of patrimonial goods” on a go to to the monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla.

In Zaragoza, the Aragonese President, Jorge Azcón (PP), continued to rejoice the ultimate judicial ruling, arrived greater than a decade after a court docket of first occasion gave the explanation to the Government of Aragon in his calls for, demanded the collaboration of the Generalitat and the MNAC to get better the murals of Sijena: “that they come immediately and that the collaboration of the Generalitat is impeccable”. He distrusted, nevertheless, from silence from the federal government.

But instances will in all probability be prolonged greater than 20 days that defends itself from the administration he presides. The ruling of the Supreme Court have to be confirmed, return to the Court of First Instance quantity 2 of Huesca from which the primary sentence got here out and a 20 -day time trial started. Then a technique of allegations may very well be initiated wherein specialists experiences on the chance or to not switch that delicate materials might be put once more on the desk.

The 2014 judicial ruling already put that risk on the desk, regardless of assuming that totally different specialists questioned the advantages of shifting the Romanesque frescoes. “No expert has affirmed the impossibility of transferring the paintings to the chapter room or that the transfer will inexorably assume the loss of the paintings. Now, the transfer cannot be made in any way,” stated the sentence, which now can now not be appealed as soon as confirmed by the Supreme Court.

The conservative of the MNAC has indicated that there are bodily and chemical points that query the chance that the frescoes recovered in 1936 may survive of their present state to the switch and a change of environmental circumstances. According to Ramells’s explanations, the world devoted to the Romanesque artwork of the museum is a sort of intensive care unit that ensures the soundness of the work, which had been already rescued from Sijena after a hearth that compelled them to withstand temperatures of as much as 1,000 levels Celsius, which ended up affecting their state and their authentic colours.

In addition, simply 65% of the murals proven within the MNAC are authentic. The relaxation are recreations in line with the evolution of the unique set on cloth and wooden that complicates its preservation. “It is a cake with very different layers that each one goes towards a different direction,” he stated, emphasizing that the present construction has not moved since 1995 and that the situation within the museum is the very best as a result of along with a stabilized moisture and temperature, the standard of the air within the space can be managed and that not one of the partitions of the world the place they’re situated is exterior. That issue permits the inner atmosphere to be stabilized.

The mayor of Villanueva de Sijena (Huesca), José Jaime Castellón, has identified, in statements to TV3, that the return of the Romanesque recent is “an opportunity for reconciliation” and dignity. “Beyond the political debate, I believe that we have to have all height of a view and hug us again the two autonomous communities such as what we are, that we are part of the same story and that we also have an opportunity for dignity, to recover an important part of our history.”