Artists, architects, writers, journalists, playwrights and other characters from the Spanish Barcelona Culture published a manifesto in which he warned his concern over the treatment being given to the cultural spaces of this cosmopolitan city.
Juan Goytisolo, Juan Marse, Oriol Bohigas, Manuel Borja-Villel, Cristina Iglesias, Claudio Lopez de Lamadrid, Lluís Homar, Lluís Pasqual, Eva Lootz or Josep Lluís Mateo and other artists of the Spanish culture Barcelona last Wednesday signed a manifesto “for an urgent and real democratization of cultural institutions” in that cosmopolitan city, local media reseñaron.
Under the identity of 18M Observatory in honor of International Museum Day which was held last Monday, the cultures were concerned “by drift of cultural policy in the city in recent years” .
They determined that it could “be entering a phase of serious decline. The crisis of the MACBA (Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art) is a signal in that direction, but not the only one. ”
They claimed that three cultural centers: Tapies Foundation, the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona (CCCB) and the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), are suffering “the tendency to instrumentalize cultural centers” when “they have functioned as a public service” and stressed “its impact on the city and its international projection”.
The MACBA crisis erupted on March 18 when the former director of the museum canceled the work Bartomeu Marí The Beast and the Sovereign, referring to then King Juan Carlos. Days later the sculpture was exposed and Mari put her under the order.
The text published on the Internet and on Friday will be broadcast on social networks, looking to attract new signatories, after denouncing the “rebound in corporate and parochial cultural policy that seeks to monopolize public debate, using the museum as a showcase and partisan propaganda, the increasing capture adds regressive policies cultural identity by wars, “according to a local newspaper.
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