“There are more intelligent ways to defend noble causes, and if we talk about it we give the aggressors the publicity they want,” says the director of the Prado
The guards of the Prado Museum are “aware” and “watchful eye”, after the tomato soup attack on the legendary painting ‘The Sunflowers’, by Vicent Van Gogh, in the National Gallery in London, perpetrated last Friday by two environmental activists. “Surveillance has intensified,” recognized the director of the Prado Museum, Miguel Falomir, at the presentation this Monday of the exhibition ‘Another Renaissance. Spanish artists in Naples at the beginning of the Cinquecento’.
“It is not the first action of this type that has been committed in recent weeks and I am afraid that it is not worth talking about it, since, basically, we give it publicity, which is what the aggressors intend,” Falomir said.
For the director of the art gallery, it is an issue that “should concern us as a human race, apart from as a museum and as a museum director.” “There are much more intelligent ways to defend noble causes and doing things this way just the opposite is achieved,” added Falomir.
He reiterated that the museum “is, of course, aware, with a watchful eye and has intensified surveillance and care work.” “Anyway, I think the less said about these things, the better,” he insisted.
Two young activists from the organization ‘Just Stop Oil’ threw the contents of a can of tomato soup against ‘Los Girasoles’ last week, although the Van Gogh piece, protected by glass, was not damaged.
Last May it was ‘La Gioconda’, the great and ultra-protected icon of the Louvre, the work that suffered an attack with a cake. In July, two other activists glued their hands to ‘La Primavera’ by Boticelli, in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
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