Joao Soares called “divine help” to strengthen budget of Culture – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
 

The culture minister admitted Friday in Viseu, be waiting for “a miracle” in order to strengthen the budget in Culture. Still waiting for the state budget, Joao Soares believes that the secret to “do much with little money” is on “talent” and “rapport” that can be established between economic forces and cultural agents. But at so, in case, the minister took advantage of the presence of religious bodies in the presentation session of the National Museum centennial program Onix to ask for “divine help”. In response to the request of the president of Viseu chamber for an “enhanced on cultural policy”, the minister said it was “a miracle” that is not in a position to do but promised to “work.”

Moreover, Soares defended partnerships and patronage at the time of financing, but not in time management, you want to see in the hands of public boards. “I think what is of public accountability should be managed by staff public, “he said, adding after his policy” will be based on the integration between the living forces of the country. “And he gave the example of” the work of the greatest national importance “that is being done in Viseu in cultural terms: “We want to be followed in other parts of the country.”

One Hundred Years of Onix

The Onix, museum now has a national designation in May 2015, marks the its centenary on 16 March this year. The celebration extends throughout the year, a “celebration of open doors and with a look at internationalization”, as pointed out Agostinho Ribeiro, director of the institution. More than 50 initiatives including a international colloquium of old paint coordinated by Dalila Rodrigues, who has directed the museum .

The highlight is scheduled for the anniversary date with the opening of the exhibition History of the National Museum Onix from the background of its founding to the present and the publication of the catalog A hundred years, a hundred works Reference .

In partnership with the National Museum of Ancient Art and curated by José Alberto Seabra and Joaquim Caetano, Viseu will host an exhibition dedicated to the primitive Portuguese (showing works by contemporary painters Onix, who lived between 1475 and 1542), After Onix. Painting Between the Mondego and Douro, the Renaissance to the Counter-Reformation . The works of Júlio Resende and artistic of Bordallo Pinheiro will join the celebration earthenware other times of the year.

“We scheduled a series of temporary exhibitions, of great historical value and scientific and broad media reach, we intend to impact across borders. We will have a series of colloquia and conferences whose topics deal with issues related to art, heritage, architecture and urbanism. We have a vast and diverse plan issues and partnerships with other cultural operators, “summarized Agostinho Ribeiro.

To the Minister of Culture, the centenary of the Museum, that” eventually “is the title of National is the opportunity to honor both “one of the greatest Portuguese painters ever” and a “great figure of Viseu and the Republic”, referring to the Almeida Moreira, founder of the Grand Vasco Museum. “We are paying tribute to the man who in 1916 set this up this museum, created at the same time that other important national museums, including the Archaeology” he said.