Activists glue themselves to Goya work in Spanish local weather protest

Climate 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 lady hooked up 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 between the 2 works, video footage confirmed.

Campaign group Futuro Vegetal mentioned its members carried out the protest.

“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 wrote on Twitter.

Groups 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 connect themselves to the glass masking Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” in The Hague and others threw soup over Van Gogh’s “The Sower” in Rome and one among his Sunflowers work in London. Both of these works have been additionally coated.

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

“We condemn the use of the museum as a place to make a political protest of any kind,” the gallery added.

Police mentioned two folks had been arrested.