Censored in Andorra an exhibition of censored artwork | Culture | EUROtoday

In a call undoubtedly paradoxical, Andorra has censored a consecrated exhibition, exactly to censored artwork. The pattern Censorship is the curator (of this exhibition)the primary itinerant of the Museum of Forbidden Art in Barcelona, ​​based by the Catalan businessman and collector Tatxo Benet, has been definitively canceled after a canopy of the journal was ordered Charlie Hebdo printed after the jihadist assault of January 7, 2015 that induced 12 useless.

Andorran authorities have justified the measure for safety causes, in reference to the context of excessive terrorist alert within the neighboring nations of Spain and France. Maintaining the exhibition, it’s thought-about, might behave “risks to national security,” in response to an official assertion. The main consul of Escaldes-Engordany, Rosa Gili, stated: “I prefer to censor to go to a funeral.”

The exhibition, inaugurated on Thursday at Espai Escaldes, needs to be open till September 20. The prohibited artwork museum has reacted manifesting its rejection of any type of censorship and has thought-about that they might not settle for {that a} work was prohibited with out affecting your entire assortment.