Guillermo Solana, director of Thyssen, candidate for Sumar

There are further questions: can it be understood that the museum’s latest exhibitions respond to the political program he now pursues as a party candidate? Let’s remember that decolonization and feminism are two of the axes of Urtasun’s ministry, and some of the exhibitions that Thyssen has organized in recent months. In February, ‘Maestras’ closed its doors, an exhibition of a militant feminist nature rocio de la villaHe is also the curator of another recent exhibition, ‘Love Me Fast’ Noemi Iglesias Barrios. the seventh installment of the museum’s KORA program, “which each year presents an exhibition conceived from a gender perspective.”

This month ‘Colonial Memory at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection’ will be inaugurated. The ‘online’ information about these exhibitions states: “The invisible” stories of racial domination, marriage and the fight for civil rights will be shown, as well as the establishment of a modern commercial order based on European military control, the use of enslaved African labor, and the appropriation of land and raw materials, originally American and, later, also Asian and African. The viewer will enter the imaginary representation of the new Arcadia and witness the Western projection onto the ‘East’ of its insatiable desires and the construction of the ‘other’ as barbaric or primitive. It should be remembered that Minister Urtasun assured in one of his first statements upon arriving in government that he would resolve the judicial battle in the United States over the ownership of a painting by Pissarro, which the heirs of a Jewish owner claimed as Nazi loot, in a different way. The conflict that his candidacy presents is undoubted.

More questions: Is it acceptable for the director of the National Museum to be the candidate of the party to which the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, and his state secretary belong? Jordi MartíWho is your direct boss? Can a director who is a candidate subject to party discipline have an independent relationship with a minister who is the spokesperson for the party he leads? Yolanda Diaz,

The ministry and the museum will have to provide an explanation in the coming days. Solana has not taken ABC’s call. Thinking about the controversy that would be generated by a national museum director who was a candidate for the PSOE, PP or Vox predicts days of controversy. Isn’t the cultural world demanding good practices and independence from parties and governments with regard to cultural management? That time seems to be running out after Solana’s decision to jump into politics.