“There are more intelligent ways to defend noble causes, and when we talk about them, we give the aggressors the publicity they want,” says the director of the Prado
Guards at the Prado Museum are “aware” and “watchful” after the tomato soup attack on Vicent Van Gogh’s legendary painting ‘The Sunflowers’ in London’s National Gallery, perpetrated last Friday by two environmentalists. “Surveillance has been intensified,” acknowledged the director of the Prado Museum, Miguel Falomir, at Monday’s presentation of the exhibition ‘Another Renaissance. Spanish Artists in Naples at the Beginning of the Cinquecento’.
“It is not the first action of this type that has been committed in recent weeks and I am afraid it is not worth talking about it, because in fact we are giving publicity to it, which is what the aggressors are planning,” said Falomir.
For the director of the art gallery, it is an issue that ‘should concern us as humanity, separate from museums and as museum directors’. “There are much more intelligent ways to defend noble causes and doing things this way achieves just the opposite,” Falomir added.
He reiterated that the museum is “obviously aware, with a watchful eye and has intensified its monitoring and care.” “Anyway, I think the less said about these things the better,” he insisted.
Two young activists from the ‘Just Stop Oil’ organization threw the contents of a can of tomato soup at ‘Los Girasoles’ last week, although the Van Gogh piece, protected by glass, was not damaged.
Last May, it was ‘La Gioconda’, the large and ultra-protected icon of the Louvre, the work that was attacked with a cake. In July, two other activists stuck their hands to Boticelli’s ‘La Primavera’ in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
Source: La Verdad
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