The project for the Rodin Museum in Santa Cruz de Tenerife promoted by the capital city council could seem inconvenient, outdated, superfluous, openly rejectable. A server sincerely believes that some of his objectives were rigorously criticized and participated at the same time in political enthusiasm and amateurism in management. But in just three months, what seemed like reasonable criticism (although not always well reasoned) have given way to an enthusiastic hunt where the opposition, academic sectors, and the media have coordinated, finding friends willing to spread the word that Rodin was an anachronistic booby-cock. The copy thing is a stinking business, the whole operation is an olalá transcript of Las Teresitas. Maintaining that the idea of installing a Rodin Museum in Santa Cruz was bad was legitimate, but justifying the rejection with this vomit of stupidity, malignity and ignorance is a failure in itself.
And among the worst is, without a doubt, the attitude of the municipal opposition. An opposition that in the ineffable case of Ramón Trujillo – the most contrasted zero to the left in Tenerife politics – opens with a warning to the media: if you do not automatically spread my complaint, you are a medium sold to power. Since the media sold to power doesn’t pay any attention to it, Trujillo provides its name and throws a bucket of shit at it. Although it may seem incredible, the media gets upset and decides to ignore the councilor’s nonsense. UP’s conclusion is clear: we live in a Bermudian fascism. In general, it has been the tone in this matter: denounce the ominous silence of the local media that do not immediately subscribe to the opposition’s review and enthusiastically applaud a 30-second note on Tele 5 or a report in El Español indifferent to the context. social and cultural of Santa Cruz de Tenerife at present and in the last three decades. If we don’t go out with burning torches to the mayor’s office, we are suspects. During those thirty years there has not been a de facto authentic cultural policy in Santa Cruz de Tenerife; Curiously now, when the municipal government is sketching a project in which the Rodin Museum was only one of the axes, the opposition, unfortunately, does not present corrective proposals, does not offer alternatives, does not show any interest in agreeing on anything at all. He prefers to crow about a scandal, try to make electorally profitable an impostor indignation. Neither the PSOE nor United We Can – that UP that, by the way, expelled Sí se Puede from the Santa Cruz city council because this city cannot breathe without Trujillo – they have a cultural project for Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The management of the Rodin Museum has decided to give up. If there will not be a Rodin Museum in Tenerife, it will not be because of the municipal government, but because eminent opposition figures have insinuated that this was a case of mamandurria; I am honestly surprised that a spokeswoman has not published her suspicion that this Rodri was a friend of the mayor, has a bar on La Noria street and falsifies pieces in a body shop and paint shop in Salud Alto. One hopes, perhaps delusionally, that in five years the Viera y Clavijo Cultural Park, the Masonic Temple, the old building of the School of Arts and Crafts and the Palacio de Carta will be rehabilitated — projects all materialized by the current government team — and it is possible to articulate in this exceptional network of spaces the contents of a cultural policy that includes the exceptional sculptural heritage that this city has and that does not forget our mistreated Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, an almost unknown treasure for the chicharreros that both the government and the opposition should deal with. Right now.
