Spain: Climate activs glue hands to Goya paintings
Two climate activs glued themselves to the frames of two paintings Francisco Goya at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spanish police said.
The protest did not damage either painting. The two paintings were La maja vestida and La maja desnuda.”
The protesters drew “+1.5°C” on the wall between the two paintings, referring to the 1.5-degree-Celsius (2.7 F) warming cap established the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Spanish police said they detained the two activs.
The group Futuro Vegetal (Plant Future) claimed responsibility for the protest and posted a video of the two activs on Twitter.
“Last week the UN recognized the impossibility of keeping us below the limit of 1.5°. We need change now,” the group tweeted, referring to a UN report that warned that the window to cap emissions is closing.
“We condemn the use of the museum as a place to make a political protest of any kind,” the Prado gallery said in a statement.
🛑🛑 ÚLTIMA HORA
Nos pegamos a “Las Majas” de Goya en el Museo Del Prado.
La semana pasada la ONU reconocía la imposibilidad de mantenernos por debajo del límite de aumento del Acuerdo de París de 1.5° de temperatura media respecto a los niveles preindustriales. pic.twitter.com/0buAMbeziJ
— FuturoVegetal (@FuturoVegetal) November 5, 2022
Saturday’s protest comes ahead of the start of the COP27 climate conference in Egypt, which begins this week.
Protests targeting artworksThis is not the first time climate activs have targeted a famous artwork in protest actions.
On Friday, the group Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) threw pea soup over on an artwork Vincent van Gogh at the Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome. Four activs were arrested in the action.
In October, activs from Just Stop Oil splashed tomato soup over van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at the UK’s National Gallery in London.
Other protests have involved the use of cake or mashed potatoes and targeted such works such as the “Mona Lisa” at the Louvre in Paris and “Girl with a Pearl Earring” at the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague.
All the artworks remained undamaged, as they were behind protective glass.
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