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The last meeting between the Minister of Culture, Noelia Arroyo, and the owner of the collection, held on September 5, included the need for a commissioner to ensure the management and set up an artistic discourse in the selection of works
Orange formation has requested the urgent convening of a new session of the Joint Commission for the arrival of the art collection of the Regional Museum of Modern Art to study the next steps
Citizens Cartagena has reported that negotiations between the owner of the art collection Marifí Plazas, Fernando Gallego, and the Ministry of Culture for a selection of these works will become part permanently, although rotating in the Regional Museum of Art modern in Cartagena (MURAM) are on track and expected to reach an agreement soon.
Citizen has learned that last September 5 there was a meeting between Fernando Gallego and the Minister of Culture, Noelia Arroyo, in which it was found the willingness by both sides to the museum hosting the collection of Marifí Places imminently, and which reached Gallego is willing to ensure that the works and enter the MURAM.
Citizens want to remember that the intent of the owner of the collection has always been that the transfer is free.
Some of the topics discussed at the meeting was the need for the partial collection (for reasons of space) is controlled and managed by a curator who, in addition to ensuring the preservation, communication and management of exposure, whatever it set up a artistic and thematic discourse coherent artistic selection, and future selections.
The need for a rotating exhibition is imposed by the limitation of the areas designated with an approximate capacity to accommodate between 30 and 40 works of Marifí Plazas.
The spokesman for Citizens said that "Marifí Plazas is closer than ever to find their rest in the city of Cartagena. Upon learning of this meeting organized by our training, between the owner and the Minister, we are still awaiting a reconvening of the Joint Commission to know the steps to follow from now on. "
Manuel Padin "the illusion is tremendous because we see the light at the end of a tunnel that has cost us go over fifteen years."
In early February this year held the first session of the Joint Commission studying the arrival of the art collection Marifí Places to MURAM.
The Commission is composed by painters Francisco Solana and Pedro Diego Casanova, a proposal Citizens, the secretary general of the Ministry of Culture, José Vicente Albaladejo Cruz, former director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Murcia, (MUBAM), Juan Garcia Sandoval, spokesman for Citizens and Cartagena, Manuel Padin.
The objective of the Commission since its inception has been to establish a roadmap to study how the host MURAM part of the collection.
Citizens gushed negotiations with the owner
Cartagena citizens reached at the end of September 2015 a historic agreement with the owner of Marifí pitches for the arrival of the collection to Cartagena, after more than fifteen years of blockade in negotiations between Fernando Gallego and the regional government.
After one of the meetings with Fernando Gallego, he informed the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena that their conditions to give the collection had changed, and that the main obstacle is the requirement that forth in its entirety, had disappeared.
In addition, he reported that the sale of the works would be completely free.
After confirming this change of heart by Fernando Gallego, Citizens Cartagena requested through the heart of the City of Cartagena, which were restored urgent negotiations between the regional government, the City of Cartagena, and the owner of the art collection .
Given the irresponsible passivity and indifference of the government team of the City Council, the Municipal Group of Citizens in Cartagena was forced to take back the initiative and requested a meeting with the Minister of Culture to discuss the matter which led to the establishment of the Commission mixed.
Marifí collection Plazas
The gallery Marifí Plazas Gal is a prestigious collection of twentieth century art.
The collection consists of about 400 pieces of important authors such as Antonio Saura.
This exhibition has been exhibited in New York, Berlin, Belgrade, Warsaw, Vienna, Brussels.
The works that includes originals of Arroyo, Guinovart, Clave, Redondela, Canogar, Genovese, Bores and Guerrero, among others.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena
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