Arts

Open in Malaga the first seat of Pompidou Center outside France

It contains 90 works of contemporary art


Rajoy, Pellerin and other authorities (Source: Pool Moncloa)
(Source: Pool Moncloa)
USPA NEWS - The Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, opened this Saturday the Pompidou Center of Malaga, in the southern Spanish coast, the first seat that Paris's prestigious contemporary art museum opens outside France.
The permanent collection of Pompidou Center of Malaga will consist of 90 works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including pieces by Picasso, Frida Kahlo, René Magritte and Alberto Giacometti. The opening of this seat in a building called 'The Cube', in the port of Malaga, has been possible thanks to an agreement between the City Council and the Centre Pompidou in France, which in principle will last five years and is renewable.
At the opening, in that also participated the Minister of Culture of France, Fleur Pellerin, Rajoy expressed "heartfelt thanks" to the French government for his "extraordinary cooperation and assistance" in the "painful circumstances" that have surrounded the accident of Germanwings in the Alps, in which 150 people died. "I will not forget, nor other representatives of my Government and other officials" who are or have been in France, said Rajoy.
Good times
In internal key, president of the Spanish Government appealed to the "good times" to come to the Spanish economy, although he acknowledged that "much remains to be done." Rajoy said that "Spain has lived a very hard and difficult stage" but said "we began to grow and begin to create jobs." According to the head of the Spanish government, this year "will be better than 2014, will continue economic growth and more Spanish people will find a job."
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