The Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM) is already warned. The sculptor Miquel Navarro withdraw the donation made to the museum in 2004, consisting of more than five hundred pieces and valued at 19 million euros, in case an agreement on the Governing Board of the agency scheduled for today is not reached and in which will address the controversial decision by its director, José Miguel G. Cortés, removing the permanent room dedicated to the sculptor.
A notary Valencia delivered Monday direction Minutes of formal museum in explaining the position of the artist. In it, Navarro details if the resolution adopted at the time with the museum and endorsed by the Governing Body in 2011 agreed to install the room without expanding the Julio González Centre shall by broken the pact signed for donation is violated. Also it will if any decision would be made unilaterally.
Also, he notes that the agreement included the publication of a catalog raisonné of his work and the question paper if it is to meet and when, so it reserves the right to accept compliance with the donation.
new owner of the IVAM argued to justify its decision to withdraw the permanent room dedicated to Miquel Navarro in the contract signed at the time by the direction of IVAM with artist stipulated in a clause that the creator would have a permanent room once expanded the museum.
However, not only the delay of enlargement but above all the doubts that this occurs in the short or medium term “the project was abandoned in the middle of the last decade” led to the former address of the museum to close a deal with the artist and advance the assembly hall . The agreement was ratified by the Governing Council in 2011. The hall opened its doors in September 2013 and the idea of Cortés its removal was not addressed during the meeting that the Governing Body held last week in which Cortés unveiled its exhibition schedule.
While presented did not disclose any appearance around the uprising of the room, nor included in the museum project presented to win the open contest for the election of the new director of autonomous institute .
This week’s surroundings artist himself recognized Levante-EMV the creator’s intention to reach an agreement, provided it was “bilateral”.
Yesterday, the very Councillor for Culture, who decided mediate the issue and chose to convene urgently the highest body of the museum, stated to be “convinced” that today the conflict will be resolved between management and artist.
The very Cortés stated on Saturday this newspaper his desire to also reach an agreement on the matter and resolve the conflict.
However, no progress yesterday Català possible solutions but added that there is a donated work and “we would all like that were permanently exposed through various exhibitions containing either part of that work in a permanent exhibition or some other dependency “. His words it revealed that, as advanced this newspaper, the collection could change rooms or removed in some specific periods.
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