We read in ARA an interview with the former curator of the Lleida Museum Albert Velasco, regarding a book, absolutely essential, that he has just published: Les pintures de Sixena. Un foc que encara crema
(Pòrtic). Velasco writes from the perspective of the political nature of the dispute. "The Sixena case is not a simple patrimonial restitution, but rather a very clear case of a battle adjacent to the Catalonia-Spain conflict", he says. And he also says: "In the event that the judge decides that the paintings leave, an absolutely Martian scenario opens up".
To restore patrimonially. It is not a melon, it is a globe. Romanesque monasteries dismantled piece by piece and reassembled in distant lands, obelisks and mummies gifted to friends, art looting by Nazis, but also by "civilized" democrats saving the "savages" from themselves... During the Civil War, not so long ago, houses and lands were "given" to avoid death sentences that were not avoided either, and entire buildings were expropriated, never returned.
Let the works of art go to Sixena, and let's put an end to this. Let's go see them for the last time, where they are, but please, let those who have to take them down dismantle them. Let them come to the MNAC with chisels and hammers, with cardboard boxes and refrigerated trucks. What cannot happen is that the MNAC technicians come to supervise if they wrap the loot well. The MNAC technicians should not lift a finger. And if they get damaged, let them get damaged, they will restore them. I would broadcast the dismantling, of course. But if I were an MNAC technician, I wouldn't lift a finger. They have been preserved for a long time, but now that's over. Good riddance.
