“It seems clear to me, and I think culture is universal.” When the President of the Community of Madrid broke out, Isabel Díaz Ayusoin the political debate about whether it is relevant or not that el Guernica de Picasso moves from time to time to where the bathtub is Bombing during the Civil War inspired Picasso to paint his famous painting in 1937.
Strangely many years ago Santiago Carrillo similarly expressed regarding the transfer claim by the painter Agustin Ibarrola. The historical leader of the Communist Party was labeled as “provincial”.
Controversy comes about twice a week when leader Imanol Pradales formally asked Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to transfer the work which has been on display at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid since 1992.
Also this Tuesday, the PNV is expected to ask the Minister of Culture on the subject, Ernest Urtasunin the Senate, which imposes on him the obligation to express himself accordingly.
Senator Igotz Lopez you will be responsible for formulating the following request: “Because you are reluctant to study the necessary conditions for the time transfer to take place Guernica in Euskadi, how the government planteado vasco?”. Just one day before, on Aberri Eguna (Fatherland Day) celebrated this weekend, Pradales asked Sánchez, saying he would tend to have the “political courage” to accept the transfer.
It is not the first time that the country has started traveling to the museum of its territory, even if it is temporary. In 2017, the autonomous parliament approved the resolution on the application of the transfer from the Central Administration with the votes of EH Bild and PNV. It was the day after commemorating the 80th anniversary of the bombing by the German air force on April 26, 1937, which claimed 1,600 local lives.
Now, as he seeks to commemorate 90 years of the bombing committed on April 6, 1937, he aims to meet the challenge of the Vasco government, which also covers new decades, to exhibit the work at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao between April 1, 2026 and June 270, 2027.
For Pradales, translating the image into the context of these anniversaries would represent “formula for repair and historical memory”. It would be “in this geopolitical moment to recognize what war entails and the atrocities that come from dictation,” I say. And he said: “It would seem to me a serious political mistake to close the door with Queen Sofia’s whistleblower on this issue.”
Yes, that’s it the Reina Sofia conservators do not recommend the move works by vibrations of displacement that could cause “new sorrows, reliefs and the loss of the pictorial head, as well as desgarres”, following the shape.
El País Vasco also requested the transfer of the great joy of the crown of Queen Sofia in 1997, which coincides with the inauguration of the Guggenheim Palace. Last year lehendakari Juan Jose Ibarretx he declared the transfer “once for all” and told the Spanish government “to ask forgiveness of Gernik, Euskadi and all Spanish society for the criminal comets for having been resurrected in arms”. Until now, from the Ministry of Culture, they have all dealt with this type of proposal with alleged reasons for conservation.
In the price of 2000, el The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York asked Reina Sofía for a loan Guernica for temporary exposure, but the application was also requested.
The last time Guernica toured was in 1992, when it left the Casón del Buen Retiro to settle permanently in its current location. It was 11 years ago, in 1981, when he left for Spain just from MoMA in New York.
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