{"id":46169,"date":"2000-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/archivos\/46169"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:34:53","slug":"editorial-nueva-direccion-para-el-reina-sofia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/editorial-nueva-direccion-para-el-reina-sofia\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Nueva direcci\u00f3n para el Reina Sof\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Autor:<\/strong> Jos\u00e9 Alberto L\u00f3pez<\/p>\n

Revista:<\/strong> L\u00c1PIZ Revista Internacional de Arte n\u00ba 239<\/p>\n\n

A finales de diciembre, el ministro de Cultura de Espa\u00f1a y la presidenta del Patronato del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda (MNCARS) dieron a conocer el nombre del nuevo director de ese museo: Manuel Borja-Villel (Castell\u00f3n, 1957), hasta ahora director del Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) \u2013al que logr\u00f3 convertir en un s\u00f3lido y prestigioso centro internacional\u2013 y anteriormente director de la Fundaci\u00f3 T\u00e0pies. Su idoneidad la avala su reciente nombramiento como presidente del Comit\u00e9 Internacional para Museos y Colecciones de Arte Moderno (CIMAM), en sustituci\u00f3n de Alfred Paquement, director del Centre Georges Pompidou. El sector del arte est\u00e1, pues, de enhorabuena. <\/p>\n

Pero, \u00bfqui\u00e9n va a decidir de verdad el rumbo de este museo desde ahora? \u00bfSe seguir\u00e1 realmente la pol\u00edtica que establezca Borja-Villel? De acuerdo con los nuevos estatutos del museo, su puesto es el de \u201cdirector art\u00edstico\u201d, lo que significa que pierde el anterior car\u00e1cter de \u201cdirector general\u201d \u2013condici\u00f3n pol\u00edtica y administrativa por la cual deb\u00eda responder \u00fanicamente ante el ministro de Cultura\u2013. As\u00ed, el \u201cdirector art\u00edstico\u201d del Reina Sof\u00eda no tendr\u00e1 en la pr\u00e1ctica tanta autonom\u00eda como antes, y habr\u00e1 de rendir cuentas desde ahora, en buena l\u00f3gica administrativa, a la Direcci\u00f3n General de Bellas Artes. No nos extra\u00f1a que el propio Borja-Villel est\u00e9 desde ya abogando por la transformaci\u00f3n del Museo de su actual condici\u00f3n de organismo aut\u00f3nomo dependiente del Ministerio de Cultura en Agencia o quiz\u00e1s en Fundaci\u00f3n. <\/p>\n

La elecci\u00f3n del nuevo director del mncars mediante la aplicaci\u00f3n del documento de \u201cbuenas pr\u00e1cticas\u201d por parte del Ministerio de Cultura merece un comentario aparte. Se ha pretendido desde el principio que ese documento sea un freno para el cambio caprichoso e irresponsable de los directores de museos y centros de arte. Por ello, en \u00e9l se proponen medidas para garantizar en lo posible la elecci\u00f3n de personas profesionalmente competentes para ocupar esos cargos directivos, mediante concurso. Es decir, se trataba de garantizar, sin sustituirla, la aplicaci\u00f3n de la pol\u00edtica cultural, la cual compete al Gobierno. Se daba por supuesto que la convocatoria para ocupar la direcci\u00f3n del Reina Sof\u00eda deb\u00eda ser internacional y que el comit\u00e9 de expertos que hab\u00eda de evaluar a los candidatos se deb\u00eda regir por criterios objetivos algo m\u00e1s transparentes que los aplicados finalmente, m\u00e1s bien opacos y misteriosos, pues ese comit\u00e9 no present\u00f3 siquiera una terna razonada de candidatos elegibles, para que el poder pol\u00edtico \u2013responsable \u00faltimo del destino del Reina Sof\u00eda, seg\u00fan el ordenamiento jur\u00eddico espa\u00f1ol\u2013 pudiera escoger a aquel que se supone m\u00e1s apto. Por otra parte, el citado documento de \u201cbuenas pr\u00e1cticas\u201d y, por supuesto, el veloz concurso, sosten\u00edan expl\u00edcitamente que las invitaciones personales quedaban excluidas, por razones obvias. Por eso causan estupor las declaraciones del presidente del Patronato del macba, Leopoldo Rod\u00e9s, a El Peri\u00f3dico de Catalunya <\/em>: \u201c…No me ha gustado la forma en que se ha precipitado todo, con fuertes e insistentes presiones al director\u201d. \u00bfSe insisti\u00f3 para que presentara su candidatura? \u00bfPara qu\u00e9, entonces, el concurso? Corremos el riesgo de que la pr\u00f3xima vez que se invoque el susodicho c\u00f3digo de \u201cbuenas pr\u00e1cticas\u201d tengamos que mirar distra\u00eddamente hacia otro lado. <\/p>\n

New management for the Reina Sof\u00eda <\/p>\n

In late December, the Spanish Minister of Culture and the Chair of the Board of the Reina Sof\u00eda National Museum and Art Centre (MNCARS) disclosed the name of the museum’s new director: Manuel Borja-Villel (Castell\u00f3n, 1957), until now director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) \u2013which under his management positioned itself as a sound and prestigious international centre\u2013 and former director of the Fundaci\u00f3 T\u00e0pies. His suitability is backed by his recent appointment as the chair of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM ), replacing Alfred Paquement, director of the Centre Georges Pompidou. The art sector has reason to celebrate. <\/p>\n

We do wonder, though, who will really decide the course of the museum from now on? Will the policy established by Borja-Villel actually be implemented? According to the museum’s new statutes, the position has been renamed to that of \u201cart director,\u201d thus implying the loss of the previous nature of the \u201cgeneral director\u201d position \u2013a political and administrative condition solely answerable to the Ministry of Culture. In practice, the Reina Sof\u00eda’s \u201cart director\u201d will not have as much freedom as before, and from now on, he will be accountable to the Direcci\u00f3n General de Bellas Artes (General Department of Fine Arts), a good administrative move. It is no surprise that Borja-Villel himself is already advocating the transformation of the Museum from its present condition as an autonomous organism dependent on the Ministry of Culture into an Agency or a Foundation, even. <\/p>\n

The appointment of the new director of the mncars by way of the implementation of the \u201cgood practices\u201d document issued by the Ministry of Culture deserves a comment of its own. From the start, this document set out to obstruct the capricious and irresponsible change of museum and art centre directors. The document, consequently, proposed measures to guarantee in as much as possible the appointment of people who are professionally competent to occupy these senior management positions, and are appointed by public tender. That is to say, it attempted to guarantee, without replacing it, the implementation of the cultural policy, which is the responsibility of the Government. It was taken as a given that the tender for the position of director of the Reina Sof\u00eda should be international and that the committee of experts that would assess the candidates should follow objective criteria that were somewhat more transparent than the principles that were actually implemented in the end, which were quite obscure and mysterious, since the committee did not even present a reasoned short list of selectable candidates for the political power \u2013which, according to the Spanish legal code, has the final say regarding the Reina Sof\u00eda’s fate\u2013 to select the person most suited for the position. Moreover, the afo reme ntioned \u201cgood practices\u201d document, alongside the swift tender process, explicitly implied that personal invitations were excluded, for obvious reasons. Therefore, we were genuinely surprised to read the statement of the Chair of the Board of the macba, Leopoldo Rod\u00e9s, in El Peri\u00f3dico de Catalunya <\/em>: \u201c…I did not like how quickly it all happened, or the strong and adamant pressure the director received.\u201d Was he pressured to apply for the position? If so, why the public tender? If that was the case, the next time the afo reme ntioned code of \u201cgood practices\u201d is invoked, we might have to look away distractedly. <\/p>\n

Translation: Laura F. Farhall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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