Futuro Vegetal activists wrote the message ‘+1.5º’ to ‘warn about the rise in global temperature’ and ‘its serious consequences for the entire planet’.
Two ‘eco-activists’ glued their hands to the lists of Goya’s ‘Las majas’ in the Prado Museum this Saturday morning. They are two young militants from the organization Futuro Vegetal. Both glued their hands with cyanoacrylate glue to the frames of Francisco de Goya’s paintings ‘The Naked Maja’ and ‘The Dressed Maja’, displayed in Madrid’s Villanueva Museo Nacional del Prado building as a sign of protest against the emergency climate.
The museum had tightened its security measures since a wave of ‘eco announcements’ erupted in several European museums a month ago. The Prado has not reported any damage to the paintings. The museum guards evacuated the room and called the police as visitors yelled “Get out, get out” at the environmentalists.
In the space on the wall separating the two paintings, the young women have written the message ‘+1.5º’ in large letters to ‘warn of the rise in global temperature that will create an unstable climate and serious consequences for the entire planet. cause’.
The first ‘eco-attack’ protest against art in Spain joins others that have taken place in recent weeks, such as those of two environmentalists who threw tomato soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Los Girasoles’, exhibited in the National Gallery of London or who of that Friday threw vegetable puree on a painting by Vincent van Gogh that is on display in Rome.
The Italian activists are following in the footsteps of predecessors like ‘Just Stop Oil’, whose members dumped tomato soup on Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ at London’s National Gallery last month, slightly damaging the list. A week ago, the legendary painting by Johannes Vermeer, the star work of the Mauritshuis Museum, was also attacked by those who did the same with ‘The Girl with a Pearl Earring’. A few days ago, two ‘Last Generation’ supporters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting on display in the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, near Berlin.
The attack on an art icon like ‘las majas’ coincides with the start in Egypt of the COP27 climate change conference, which will be attended by representatives from nearly 200 countries and as pressure mounts to take tougher measures to tackle global warming. .
Source: La Verdad
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