speculation on the site that would accommodate a permanent collection Miró ended this Friday at the end of the day, when the mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira, announced that the works of the Catalan artist will be in residence at the Casa de Serralves – where just before it had inaugurated the exhibition Joan Miró: the Materiality and Metamorphosis – and that the architect Alvaro Siza has accepted already the invitation to suit their new functions, house beautiful pink of modernist architecture.
"it Was a work of good wills and a decision filed," said Moreira, arguing that "in a time in which many people live with the sacrifices, the resources should be managed sparingly, and this solution is much cheaper than to build a new museum". Although the institutional model has yet to be worked, recognized the mayor, is already decided that the works will be formally in the custody of the local authority, the House of Serralves will act as a pole of the municipality, but will not be a municipal museum, that the camera is responsible for the works of fitness of the House, and that the future box office revenues will revert fully to Serralves.
But the costume of the end of this partnership is not likely to be traced without that first being done, explained Rui Moreira to the PUBLIC, "a small change in the law with regard to the support of the municipalities to the foundations".
The solution does not fail to surprise, since there seemed to be signs that the Serralves would not see with good eyes the chance to accommodate the collection, but the mayor says that these reserves only said about a possible integration of the Mirós at the Museum of Contemporary Art. "But to install this pole here at the Casa de Serralves, it makes sense," she argues, because we have the luck of the House be, also, of modernist architecture, and for this reason the boards are here as well".
Moreira spoke informally with the press after the speeches of the hostess of the ceremony, Ana Pinho, chairman of the board of Serralves, and António Costa, Mariano Rajoy, and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. Already the president of the autonomous Government of Catalonia, which was one of the first to reach Serralves, accompanied by Rui Moreira, has gone fairly unnoticed in the ceremony, but ended up doing a press conference parallel to the many journalists Spanish gifts, probably more interested in hearing about your recent announcement that will convene a referendum on the independence of Catalonia in 2017 than in know what you think of this collection of Mirós.
If Moreira took some time to break the taboo about where would be the collection, Miró, when the solution, acknowledge, had already been taken some time ago with the knowledge of the Government, it was because you could not anticipate to António Costa, who moved to Porto just to formally announce that the Government would trust the Mirós to the city. And it was the prime minister who pulled off the large a burst of applause of the session, first when he said that, "at this time, when so many times we have doubts about the hierarchy of values, the recent history of this collection help to put them in their proper hierarchy" and considered it "very important" the decision not to sell the collection. And was again applauded when he confirmed that the 85 works would be in the Harbor, as your minister of Culture, Luís Filipe Castro Mendes, announced. "These works of Miró will likely value certainly the Port, but the Port, a city open to the world, cosmopolitan and alive, also will see the value in this collection," he said.
prime minister made the speech to be expected, focusing on the connection, which is estimated to be today "stronger than ever" between the two peoples, the iberians, "a neighborhood so rich and model, which is a powerful example to the world". The session ended with Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who did not hesitate to "welcome the decision of the Government, who knew how to understand the existing situation and to welcome the solution that is best adjusted to the national interest". The President of the Republic reiterated even the friendship between Portugal and Spain and noted that it would receive in November, "even here, in the loyal and most noble city of Porto", the Spanish monarch, Philip VI.
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