Climate activists glued their hands to the frames of two world-famous works by Spanish painter Francisco de Goya at Madrid’s Prado museum today, the latest in a series of protests targeting artworks in Europe.
A man and a woman glued their hand to Goya’s “Dressed Macha” and Goya’s “Nude Macha” and wrote with a marker on the wall between the two paintings “+1.5 C”, as seen in a video .
The organization Futuro Vegetal announced that two of its members were the ones who made this move.
“Last week the United Nations acknowledged that it is impossible to stay below the 1.5 degree Celsius limit (agreed at the Paris Climate Conference in 2016). We need change now,” the organization tweeted.
Climate activist groups have held a series of similar protests in recent weeks ahead of next week’s COP27 climate conference in Egypt.
Protesters tried to stick to the glass display case of Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” in The Hague, and others threw soup on Van Gogh’s “The Reaper” on display in Rome and his “Heliotropes” in London.
“We condemn the use of the museum as a place for any kind of political protest,” the Prado museum said in a statement, clarifying that the paintings were not destroyed but that museum officials had to repair the wall between the two works.
Police said two people were arrested.
Source: News Beast
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