The institution pulled the plug following remarks from Spanish politicians, educators and others.
“We must conclude that the conditions currently do not exist for the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife to host an international museum project,” reads the letter, which lauds “the cultural and heritage values” of the location, but notes that “the recent events in your city and the unfortunate statements of a part of the cultural, academic or political sector.”
The Tenerife authorities formalized the agreement with Paris one year ago, with the hopes that an outpost dedicated to the French sculptor Auguste Rodin would transform the city into a cultural destination on par with Bilbao, the northern Spanish city home to a branch of the Guggenheim Museum. The Rodin branch was set to open in a restored neo-Gothic building in the Viera y Clavijo Culture Park.
However, the costly project was berated by personalities from the culture and political sector in the Canary Islands as a waste of taxpayer money, given that the museum would mostly exhibit reproductions of Rodin’s sculptures. Critics also scrutinized the logic of building the museum in the archipelago, which has no artistic or biographical link the French artist. More than 3,000 art workers recently signed a petition calling for an end to the project.
The Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo, an association which promotes art produced by Canarian citizens, has stated that the copies do not have “the same economic value or the same artistic relevance as the unique works; and, therefore, they lack the speculated attraction of exclusivity that the Tenerife council emphasizes”
The Rodin Museum emphasized in its statement that the outpost would have housed galleries devoted to art from the Canary Islands, as well as a space dedicated to Tenerife’s history as an international showcase for sculpture.
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