The Museo Reina Sofia has hit bottom economically, so it is necessary that the public aid increased or at least maintained, not being possible to make more cuts, “as the following would turn off the light. ”
This was recognized by the museum director, Manuel Borja-Villel , and the assistant manager, Michaux Miranda , during the presentation of programming for the next Reina Sofía season.
In his charge, from the institution “have done their homework” to get double the own revenues and lower costs.
But this is not enough for a museum whose accounts were settled last year with one million euros negative , a figure to which Michaux Miranda expected not approach the this year, but does not rule. “We have reached the red lines and can not make more cuts,” he said.
Manuel Borja-Villel is working to achieve by the state a commitment to at least the supports remain: “From that we have hit bottom, everyone is aware.”
The search for equity in different ways, increasing the sponsors, resources and grants through the Queen Sofia Foundation and continue to organize exhibitions of the collection outside Spain, an activity the year last reported one million euros, are the objectives of those responsible for the museum.
According to Manuel Borja-Villel, who rule out a rise in ticket prices , the schedule for next season has not been affected by the economic situation of the institution.
One of the exhibitions highlights in this program is the first to bring works of artists such as Spain Edvard Munch Kandinsky Picasso Juan Gris Paul Klee or Andy Warhol to be part of the exhibition dedicated to the collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel .
The renovation work being carried out in this institution have allowed, from 17 March to 14 September, a total of 170 works, including paintings, sculptures, “collar”, photographs and videos, dating from the late nineteenth century to the present, forming a tour expressionism, abstract art, minimalism and constructivism.
From the works that make up the exhibition, 108 from the collection of modern and contemporary art museum Swiss and the rest, 60, from private collections and Im Rudolsf Staechelin Obersteg also deposited at the Kunstmuseum.
is the first time that these two private collections Basel show together outside the Swiss city, sixty paintings by artists such as Gauguin, Van Gogh, Renoir, Chagall, Soutin, Redon, Pissarro, Picasso, Manet, Modigliani, Monet, Cézanne, Jawlensky or Hodler.
Also Listed in the exhibition programming dedicated to Juan Luis Moraza, Patricia Gadea, Daniel García Andújar, Luciano Fabro or Carl Andre, Federico Guzmán, Ree Morton or Nasreen Muhammadi, who will travel to MoMA in New York and as the great exhibition on the work of Mathias Goeritz (Poland, 1915 – Mexico, 1990).
“not necessarily occur in all rooms Sabatini and Nouvel,” said Borja-Villel, one of the most important exhibitions organized outside these spaces, “Picasso and modern Spanish ( 1910-1963) “will be shown from September 20 until January 2015 at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence.
In this exhibition, the museum will bring 300,000 euros and you may also travel to Brazil, works that help you learn the Spanish art through a figure like Picasso will be exhibited, “a reference” to other creators.
Ninety pieces by Picasso, including paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, travel to Florence together with works by Joan Miró, Marie Blanchard, Dalí, Juan Gris, Oscar Domínguez, Jorge Oteiza or Pablo Gargallo.
Following this line, the exhibition “Salvador Dalí” will open in October in Sao Paulo; “Finally Miró: the experience of watching” have a roaming USA; and “Val del Omar. Mystical mechanics of cinema,” will do it for different Spanish cities.
As for the donations that have come to the museum, Manuel Borja-Villel out among other “ generous donation Claude Ruiz-Picasso “, consisting of 39 prints Óscar Domínguez and the works of Antoni G.Lamolla and Leandre Cristōfol by the Friends of the Museum.
About the visitors to the Reina Sofia, the director said that until 31 August have received 1,900,493 visitors, up 21% compared to 2013, when all records were broken with exposure devoted to Dalí, and 6.07% compared to 2012 is forecast to exceed 2,500,000 visitors year end.
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