The European Union has decided not to finance the Venetian ‘Bosco dello sport’, a new stadium in a green area with a total investment required, through public funds, of 308 million euros. And the solution that a local politician has come up with is to sell Klimt’s Judith, a masterpiece owned by the Municipality of Venice, to carry out the project with the proceeds.
The authorship of the idea is attributed to the Brugnaro councilor for sports, Renato Boraso. “If a solution is not really found, there is an extreme way out to recover the resources: we can sell Klimt’s Judith II. In 2015, when our mayor Luigi Brugnaro came up with the idea, the work was valued between 70 and 90 million euros, now I’m sure it will be worth more”, said Boraso.
The councilor has claimed that his idea was an April Fool’s Day joke, which is celebrated on April 1 in Italy. Other media also published that day, as part of the celebration, the resumption of the Venice sub-lagoon project, with drawings by the Japanese professor Mizuno Nasaj, but the City Council, on the other hand, has not taken Boraso’s idea lightly.
So much so that he has issued a press release to clarify that Judith “stays and will stay in Venice. In fact, it is now in the Mart in Rovereto, on loan as part of a close collaboration between the two museums. Go visit it if you are in those parts. But soon he will return to Ca’ Pesaro!”, he expresses in the document.
But Bosaro has finally acknowledged that his idea is firm and this is not an April Fool’s Day joke. “I mentioned Klimt and his sale – account by phone to Corriere – to finance and relaunch a dream (that of the new stadium) that has already lasted 50 years. I also did it in 2015 and we managed to restore the accounts of the municipality, devastated by 25 years of leftist government “On that occasion we also talked about selling the masterpiece.”
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