Canceled exposure sexual allusion to Juan Carlos I – The Universal

The “ The Beast and the Sovereign ” shows, planned for release today in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona ( MACBA ), has been canceled by decision of the director Bartomeu Marí by the presence of a piece with allusions to the former king of Spain, Juan Carlos I .
 

 The decision came suddenly after Marí raise the curators of the exhibition the possibility of removing the part of the Austrian artist Ines Doujak of the offer. Given the refusal of these, the director decided not perform exposure arguing that “every sample has a message and I do MACBA must issue this message” as told Spanish media.
 

 

  What is this message?
 

 

 The piece of paper mache “ Haute Couture 4. Transport ” Ines Doujak exhibits a German Shepherd in a sexual position behind the Bolivian feminist leader Domitila Chúngara, who, in turn, assumes the same position behind the figure of a man who refers to Juan Carlos I, old Spanish monarch, leaning on his hands and knees, spitting bouquets on a series of cases of Nazi SS.
 

 

 The piece, according to statements by its creator at the Bienal de Sao Paulo, where it exhibited no contratiempos-, “playing with power relations and subverts”.
 

 

 One of the advocates and commissioners of canceled shows, Valentín Roma, as reported by Portal El País , said that “the work part of the great tradition of relations between art and power “whose archetypes are caricatured, so delete rejected on the grounds that” it is a project about sovereignty rethink today “.
 

 

 The portal World specifies that Bartomeu Marí, who knew the piece and the reasons this Monday, counterargument that “it is a very sensitive part” and that “its content should not vehicularse at the Museum”. The director of the MACBA announced that the decision should not be considered censorship, but only as a decision of the museum. “I think (the guideline of the piece) inappropriate and inconsistent with the editorial line of the museum,” cites El País .
 

 

  Artists affected
 

 

 The name “Haute Couture 4. Transport” was taken from the name of the last seminar that gave the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and his goal was to make a reflection on sovereignty and state power.
 

 

 It would participate 31 artists from all over the world, which included Peggy Buth, León Ferrari , Martin Dammann, Juan Downey, Wu Tsang, Stefanos Tsivopoulos and Sergio Zeballos, among others.
 

 

 
 

 

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