The Government of Aragon accuses the director of the MNAC of “intolerable contempt” for Sijena’s works | Culture | EUROtoday

This Monday’s statements by the director of the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC), Pepe Serra, angered the Government of Aragon, which has described his phrases as “intolerable contempt”, when he acknowledged that “what cannot be is to say that a Rosalía concert can affect the painting, but sawing it into 74 pieces can be done easily” [en referencia a la presentación de su disco Lux en el MNAC]and that “whoever says this has to go to a doctor.” Jorge Español, Villanueva de Sijena’s lawyer within the litigation over the Romanesque murals on show in Barcelona and who tried to paralyze Rosalía’s act, has already warned that he’ll file a lawsuit in opposition to Serra.

In the final half 12 months, Serra has averted lavishing himself earlier than the media. On Monday he broke that silence and, at an occasion to current the growth of the museum and through numerous interviews, he as soon as once more alleged the impossibility of transferring the twelfth century work, regardless of the sentence that obligates him, questioning the arguments put ahead by the Government of Aragon and the Sijena City Council. The common director of Aragonese Culture, Pedro Olloqui, has known as a press convention this Tuesday to reply to the pinnacle of the MNAC, of ​​whom he has indicated a “disturbing mood.”

Olloqui has additionally reported that the Huesca courtroom that decides compliance with the sentence has summoned the events – nonetheless and not using a date – to elucidate the variations between the 2 schedules introduced to date for the return of the work, though Villanueva de Sijena has not but delivered its proposal. The Aragonese Government considers that seven months of labor are enough, whereas the MNAC proposes a minimal calendar of 18 months and has warned that it’s going to put out to tender as a consequence of its technical incapacity to undertake the work.

The gesture of the choose who instructs the execution of the sentence represents a “wake-up call” to the Catalan establishments in order that the technical works are revered, however she has hoped to succeed in an settlement as a result of it’s only a matter of “weeks of difference” within the deadlines for dismantling and transferring the mural advanced, which shouldn’t be “an obstacle” to compliance with the judicial decision.

Olloqui has assured that, after the Supreme Court’s ruling, there are three components which might be already “res judicata”: the Aragonese possession of the mural advanced, the necessity for the work to “return home” and the viability of the return. Regarding this final concern, Olloqui has insisted that “it was resolved in the ruling” after being the topic of debate within the judicial process, by which “a significant number of experts” participated representing all of the events and “all of them admitted that the mural paintings can be moved and reintegrated into the monastery without any problem.” The Catalan technicians who participated argue that they maintained that the whole lot might be moved, however they highlighted the injury that might happen within the case of the switch.

“How is it possible that at this time the Catalan institutions and the director of the MNAC reopen this debate, questioning the viability to which there was no procedural opposition?” Furthermore, he harassed that Serra himself participated within the courtroom listening to.

“Procedural filibustering”

The Aragonese head of Culture has referred to a press release by the director of the MNAC in an interview in EL PAÍS by which he assures that he’ll name a contest for corporations to hold out the switch: “What if the time has come? The time has already arrived as a result of a judicial ruling from the Supreme Court; we just have to comply with it.” Therefore, he should “decisively” start work to return the work “without further delay or procedural filibuster.”

The head of Aragonese Culture has additionally rejected that the Aragonese technicians are going to chop the work “with a saw” to dismantle them into 72 components: “This ridicule makes no sense whatsoever,” he identified, for the reason that mural work “arrived in many more than 72 fragments”, which however are the identical as these used on the MNAC for his or her meeting on the frames. Furthermore, within the joints between these 72 fragments “there are no remains of original paint” and they’re made in areas which might be restorations made all through the twentieth century, so “the disassembly does not affect at all” the unique set.

Olloqui has additionally defended that the images supplied by his technical group, which mirrored “a strong contamination” within the environment of the work, with the presence even of cigarette butts, are in format uncookedwho’s “unmanipulated” and has not obtained “treatment of any kind.” Finally, he has rejected the arguments of the MNAC relating to the appraisal and insurance coverage of the items: “If the Twin Towers were insurable, how are the Sijena mural paintings not insurable?” he questioned, additionally asking if it’s a budgetary drawback.

Español, for its half, has introduced its intention to sue for insults and injury to honor in opposition to Serra. In statements to EFE, the lawyer defined that at no level within the course of did he discuss with the opportunity of “cutting” or “squeezing” the work into items, and he understood that the director of the MNAC incurred “mockery” or “discredit” in opposition to him by proposing that he ought to flip to a health care provider, “in clear reference to a psychiatrist,” he added. He has introduced that he’ll file a legal criticism for injury to honor in opposition to Serra, from whom he’ll demand, he highlighted, “strong compensation.”