The people of porto will be the first to see the controversial collection Miró, consisting of 85 works of art whose fate, in 2013, was the sale in an international auction.
The collection will be displayed for the first time from Friday in Porto, the city that the Government has also chosen to host the collection in the residence, throwing the challenge to provide a suitable space that the municipal council is still assessing.
The exhibition Joan Miró: the Materiality and Metamorphosis opens to the public on Saturday, in the Serralves Museum, where it will be on display until January 28, 2017, with the curatorship of Robert Lofthouse Messeri.
the sale of The collection of works by the Catalan artist Joan Miró (1893-1983) went public at the end of 2013, when the Parvalorem and Parups, companies created by the State in 2010 to manage the assets and recover the loans of the former Banco Português de Negócios (BPN), nationalized in 2008, announced that it would go to auction in the following year, in London, by Christie”s.
it Was revealed the option of the then Government PSD/CDS, led by Passos Coelho, to sell the collection to retrieve part of the loans of the former low birth weight, sustained by the argument that the set of works of art was not a priority for the collections of national museums.
At the time, the Government claimed that, in a context of crisis, the goal was to shoot down the expense of the State, and the international auction would be the way “more transparent” to sell.
this decision, reacted by a group of artists and curators of Lisbon, defending, in a petition to the public, the maintenance of the 85 works of art in Portugal. Would receive more than 10 thousand signatures, and was debated in parliament.
The debate grew and were called, at the time, to parliament, the then secretary of State for Culture, Jorge Barreto Xavier, the president of the two companies, Francisco Nogueira Leite, and the secretary of State for Treasury, Isabel Castelo Branco.
For its part, the opposition parties, in particular the PS, the PCP and the BE, advocated the maintenance of the works in the country and its classification as a national heritage site.
under the terms of the contract between the companies that represent the State and the auction Christie”s, the collection would be sold for a minimum value of 35.5 million euros, or a maximum expected increase of 54.3 million euros.
The Public Ministry (MP) has moved forward with an injunction with the Administrative Court of the Circle of Lisbon asking for the suspension of the sale of the collection a few days before the auction, in London, but was rejected.
Even so, Christie”s turned out to cancel the auction, concluding that the legal uncertainties created in Portugal put in danger the sale of the works in a safe manner.
at That time, the prime minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, has deplored the decision of the auction, and took the management of the process, manifesting hopeful that the sale be made “short-term”.
The works, which were already in London, in the exhibition, they ended up returned to Portugal, to the coffers of the General Box of Deposits, where they remained, and has come to be marked new auction, but the MP returned to lodge an injunction against the output of the works, which turned out to be accepted.
For the second time, the auction returned to postpone the auction for when the “legal issues and commercial” were resolved, which did not happen.
the companies Also were reaffirming the intention of the sale of 85 works, and refused always his public exposure, invoking the issues of the pending legal proceedings.
The fate of the controversial collection Miró turned out to totally change with the new Government, having at the end of 2015, the then minister of culture, João Soares, announced in parliament that the works would be permanently in Portugal, option reiterated by the minister who succeeded him, Luís Filipe Castro Mendes, and, on Tuesday, the prime minister, António Costa.
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