Activists glue themselves to Goya work in Spain local weather protest

Local weather activists glued themselves to the frames of two world-famous work by Spanish grasp Francisco de Goya in Madrid’s Prado museum on Saturday, the most recent in a string of protests concentrating on artworks throughout Europe.

A person and a girl hooked up themselves to Goya’s “La Maja Vestida” (The Clothed Maja) and his “La Maja Desnuda” (The Bare Maja), and painted “+1.5 C” on the wall between the 2 works, video footage confirmed.

Marketing campaign group Futuro Vegetal stated its members carried out the protest.

“Final week the UN recognised the impossibility of protecting us under the restrict of 1.5 Celsius (agreed on the 2016 Paris local weather settlement). We want change now,” it wrote on Twitter.

Teams of local weather activists have mounted a collection of comparable protest in latest weeks within the build-up to subsequent week’s COP27 local weather change convention in Egypt.

Protesters tried to attach themselves to the glass overlaying Vermeer’s “Woman with a Pearl Earring” in The Hague and others threw soup over Van Gogh’s “The Sower” in Rome and one in all his Sunflowers work in London. Each of these works had been additionally coated.

The Prado stated its work had not been broken, however employees must restore the wall between the 2 works which had been created on the flip of the 18th and nineteenth centuries.

“We condemn the usage of the museum as a spot to make a political protest of any sort,” the gallery added.

Police stated two folks had been arrested.