Climate protesters from Extinction Rebellion stick themselves to Goya’s paintings “Las maja naked” and “La maja ropa” to notify about the environment emergency situation in Madrid, Spain November 5, 2022 in this image gotten from social networks.
Futurovegetal|Futurovegetal Via Reuters
Climate activists glued themselves to the frames of 2 world-famous paintings by Spanish master Francisco de Goya in Madrid’s Prado museum on Saturday, the current in a string of demonstrations targeting art work throughout Europe.
A guy and a lady connected themselves to Goya’s “La Maja Vestida” (The Clothed Maja) and his “La Maja Desnuda” (The Naked Maja), and painted “+1.5 C” on the wall in between the 2 works, video footage revealed.
Campaign group Futuro Vegetal stated its members performed the demonstration.
“Last week the UN recognised the impossibility of keeping us below the limit of 1.5 Celsius (agreed at the 2016 Paris climate agreement). We need change now,” it composed on Twitter.
Groups of environment activists have actually installed a series of comparable demonstration in current weeks in the accumulation to next week’s police27 environment modification conference in Egypt.
Protesters attempted to glue themselves to the glass covering Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” in The Hague and others tossed soup over Van Gogh’s “The Sower” in Rome and among his Sunflowers paintings inLondon Both of those works were likewise covered.
The Prado stated its paintings had actually not been harmed, however personnel would need to fix the wall in between the 2 works which were developed at the turn of the 18 th and 19 th centuries.
“We condemn the use of the museum as a place to make a political protest of any kind,” the gallery included.
Police stated 2 individuals had actually been apprehended.
