Two activists from the Just Stop Oil organization attacked the painting this Monday.Mirror Venus‘ by Diego Velázquez exhibited at the National Gallery in London and They managed to break the glass protector of the work, according to the British media ‘The Telegraph’, cited by Europa Press.
The museum itself has indicated on social networks that the events occurred around 11:00 a.m., when two people, who have already been arrestedhave entered Room 30 with what seemed like emergency rescue hammers.
As reported by the art gallery, the room has been cleared and the Police have been called, who have arrested the two people, while the paint has been removed for conservators to examine possible damage. The room reopened shortly after 12:30 p.m. with ‘A Dead Soldier’ Replacing ‘Venus in the Looking Glass’according to ‘The Independent’.
For its part, Just Stop Oil has specified through social networks that the activists who carried out this action are two young people aged 20 and 22 and has shared a video of the moment in which they hit the protective glass of the work. In addition, the organization has recalled that this painting was already attacked by the British suffragist Mary Richardson in 1914.
From Spain, the acting third vice president and minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Riberahas echoed the news through his ‘X’ account -formerly Twitter-, where has “profoundly rejected this way of claiming commitment on any issue.” “Nor on climate action,” added Ribera, who asserted that “destruction never helps anyone anything.”
Last year, two activists from the same environmental organization they threw tomato soup about ‘The Sunflowers’, by Vincent Van Gogh, in the same museum in the British capital.
Source: Lasexta
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