Reuters, 23/03 21:17 CET
Barcelona, 23 Mar ( EFE ) .- The Managing Committee of the Consortium of MACBA , composed of the Generalitat, the City Council, the Ministry of Culture and the Foundation MACBA , has decided to accept the resignation of the director of Barcelona museum, Bartomeu Marí, and announced the call for an international public tender as soon as possible to find a successor.
The decision was taken at a special meeting held today, which has lasted for two hours, convened to discuss the open crisis after the initial cancellation Exhibition “The beast and the sovereign,” and that finally opened its doors last Saturday.
The announcement was made by the Councillor for Culture of the City of Barcelona, Jaume Siurana, acting president and spokesman, who has also indicated it will also leave office when the two curators of the exhibition, Valenti Rome, curator, and Paul Preciado, head of public programs, in deciding Bartomeu Marí without them for loss of confidence.
With this decision, according Siurana, “the MACBA has decided to open a new stage in the life of the museum as a public entity to take responsibility to convey contemporary art offer a multiplicity of visions and generate critical debates on art and culture. “
Siurana, who has denied that the decision to have a reading of censorship, read a statement which states that decisions have been taken before the situation created in the last days of the exhibition “The beast and the sovereign.”
The Managing Committee has also decided that the cessation of Marí be effective when a new address is entered, with the task of ensuring this period the ordinary operation of the museum and the normal development of the exhibition season 2015 which was presented last week.
The meeting also decided to ratify the manager of MACBA to ensure the normal operation of the museum during this process.
MACBA deeply regrets that the mismatch between Professional has transcended the dialogue and constructive environment that must govern the relationship between those responsible for a public institution and is located downtown in an unwanted controversy.
Marí put their resignation following the controversy raised after deciding to cancel the exhibition “The beast and the sovereign” to include the play “Not dressed for conquering” Austrian Ines Doujak, which appears in a sex scene a figure that alludes to Juan Carlos I.
The exhibition, however, was finally opened three days later, on Saturday, to reconsider the director of MACBA its decision as a result of social pressure that sparked his cancellation.
The controversy, which was accompanied by widespread publicity of the work to the controversial statements and personalities related to the world of art, society and culture, has also been a great promotion for the middle, Saturday visits increased 48% over any Saturday of the year, as reported by Efe a spokesman for the museum.
Bartomeu Marí decided to cancel the show after refusing the curators of the exhibition and the artist to exclude Doujak sculpture.
In announcing the termination of Bartomeu Marí, has thanked him for the work done in the eleven years that has been in the museum, which the last seven as director.
“The beast and the sovereign,” which will open as announced Siurana, explores how contemporary art practices challenge and break the Western definition and metaphysics of political sovereignty to works by the most important international artists of the past fifteen years.
The allegory in which the exhibition is based is the beast that supposedly know the law and the sovereign power which lies in its ability to suspend the right.
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