Museum Trust rejects alleged theft of Frida and Diego’s collection

The Museum Trust Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo (FMDRFK) yesterday spread a statement in which he rejects the sayings of the cultural promoter Hilda Trujillo who denounces an alleged theft of pieces of the collection that protects that instance.

Not to mention her name in the document, the trust ensures that the accusation is unfounded, erroneous and lacks verifiable evidence. They do not present facts or documents that can be supported under legal or museological analysis serious.

Trujillo on Wednesday to some media out disappearance of works of the collections Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, including some of the painter, as well as the “inexplicable location” of several of these pieces in private collections, and the loss of pages of The newspaper of the artist.

The FMDRFK affirms that “the person who today makes these accusations never filed any formal complaint during his professional link with the trust. On the contrary, his contract was concluded when irregularities were detected in his administration and benefit third parties with the heritage in shelter (…) This situation is being treated by the legal and institutional channels conducted following its due process.”

Who for 18 years was director of the Museums Diego Rivera Anahuacalli and Frida Kahlo Casa Azul is the current Culture in the City Hall Coyoacán, headed by Giovani Gutiérrez, postulated for the position by the Pan Alliance, PRI, PRD.

In his response to the position of the trust, Trujillo explained in an interview with The day That although he has always made his complaint public, to write the text he released on Wednesday he took four years.

A part of that document, he said, he delivered it two years ago to the Bank of Mexico (instance before which the trust is registered), “I have the acknowledgs. The other, condensate, have been for 10 days. I finished this document three weeks ago.

There is no statement in my document that has no evidence. That I did not denounce, they say, but as an institution they had to go to the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (inbal) and denounce, to the Attorney General’s Office or the Prosecutor’s Office. I had to tell them.

Hilda challenged them to show the complete original of The newspaper Kahlo, then If you enter the Internet, it is found that the works are being sold.

The cultural promoter recorded in her text that while he collaborated in the museums (until 2020), he witnessed linked facts With the opacity in the management of copyright and indiscriminate permits for the use of Frida Kahlo’s works for immersive experiences, waste, author’s robbery, abuse of power, friends and commissions in hiring to third parties by the museum trust, closing of the Olmedo Dolores Museum, among other issues.

He recalled that between 2011 and 2012 there was a comparison of the original donation and the collections of Rivera and Kahlo in the Blue House. The preliminary results showed that they did not appear in the current collections of the artist listed in the original donation, of 1957.

In early 2013, he wrote, he urged director Carlos Phillips to inform the federal authorities of Culture, Kahlo’s works as Frida in flameshe Congress of Peoples for Peacey American freedom, The Sun looked out the window, Retrato de Irene Bohus, Drawing for a brewery, Fantasy of a stove, Dollatic drawingwhich were already located in private or auction collections.

Around the pages stolen of Frida Kahlo’s diaryy the auction, sale and destruction of some of theseHe commented that these are 12 pages on which he did not know any investigation.

Diego Rivera’s work was declared an artistic monument of the Nation in 1959 and that of Frida Kahlo, in 1984.

In a statement released yesterday, El Inbal explained that the Museums Diego Rivera Anahuacalli and Frida Kahlo Casa Azul were created by a private trust by the Bank of Mexico, so the institute requested the relevant information to the authorities of this institution, who have the inventories and records of said collection.

As for the sale of works by Rivera and Kahlo abroad, the federal agency clarified that He has not granted any permission for definitive exports of works by these authors.

Around the document that Hilda Trujillo says he gave them, he said that he was responded by the Institute on March 25, with the recommendation of present the allegations duly founded and motivated before the competent legal instances.