Picasso and Matisse give the place the artists of the countries that Trump does not let in – Diário de Notícias – Lisbon

In response to the executive order of the President american that prevents the entry into the country for citizens of seven muslim-majority countries, the MoMA changed the works of its galleries

Donald Trump was very clear when signing the executive order that suspends the entry of syrian refugees in the United States indefinitely and blocks the citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days. Refugees from countries other than Syria were prevented from entering by 120 days. The new york Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was as clear as the american President when yesterday, Friday, out of its walls the works of Picasso, Matisse or Picabia and replace them with the works of his collection, signed by artists from seven countries targeted by the order of the Trump.

And so there were no doubts about the changes made in the galleries that house the permanent collection of the museum on the fifth floor, close to each one of these works, says the New York Times, which has advanced the news, reads: “This work was done by an artist from a country whose citizens are to be denied entry into the United States, according to a presidential order executive signed on 27 January 2017. This is one among several works of art from the collection of the museum exhibited in the galleries of the fifth floor to affirm the ideals of hospitality and freedom which are vital for this museum, as they are to the United States.”

they Are paintings, videos, sculptures, or photographs produced by artists who were born in countries whose citizens can enter the USA. The MoMA, where you usually do not leave opinions or views, political, joins the voices that have been heard in the us airports, the world leaders, and António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, which has condemned the decision of the Trump, saying: “Measures blind, not grounded in intelligence, solid, tend to be ineffective as they are at the risk of being outdated by today’s sophisticated terrorist movements overall.”

Since yesterday that the curators Christophe Cherix, Jodi Hauptman, and Paulina Pobocha put The Mosque (1964), of the master, the sudanese Ibrahim El-Salahi at the side of one of the greatest works of Picasso, Les Demoiselles d”Avignon (1907). the Mon Père et Moi (1962), the iranian artist Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, is in the gallery Matisse, close to the Les Marocains (1916).

“The Mosque” (1964), the sudanese Ibrahim El-Salahi

There is a huge photography Shirana Shahbazi, artist, of German nationality but born in Iran, in the gallery Dada near To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour (1918), Marcel Duchamp. To these must be added also the works of Tala Madani, an american born in Iran, or Parviz Tanavoli, the iranian living in Canada, or the also iranian Siah Armajani, whose installation Elements Number 30 the figure now at the entrance of the museum.

“Chit Chat”, video iranian Tala Madani

The MoMA recalled in his page of Facebook that another of the works that are included in your galleries is the architect Zaha Hadid, who died last year. “Hadid (british, born in Iraq) became in 2004 the first woman, and first iraqi to win the Pritzker Prize of Architecture.” Now the work The Peak Project, Hong Kong, China (1991), which she signs, together with The Sleeping Gypsy (1897), Henri Rousseau.

A lawyer for the u.s. Department of Justice – involved in a process that concerns two brothers from Yemen which landed in Washington on Saturday and forced to deliver the visas, were put on a plane to return to Ethiopia -Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, says there are already a hundred thousand visas revoked since Trump signed the order, told the Washington Post on Friday. The State Department came after you deny that information, saying that this will be, in the limit, of 60 thousand.