Selfie-Taking Tourist Damages Artwork at Reina Sofía Museum – RisePEI
A Italian vacationer on the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid broken an art work final week when she tripped whereas making an attempt to take a selfie with the work.
Alberto Sánchez’s ballet set for La romería de los cornudos (The Pilgrimage of Cuckolds), 1933, was reportedly torn in a single half by the vacationer who fell on the work, according to the Spanish newspaper ABC. As she fell, she grabbed maintain of the piece and ripped a part of its wallpaper.
The Pilgrimage of Cuckolds was initially created as a set for the eponymous one-act ballet written by Federico García Lorca and Cipriano Rivas Cherif. Its protagonist is a person who tries to seduce a married ladies who’s on a non secular pilgrimage together with her husband within the hope of getting pregnant.
As a part of a latest assortment rehang of the museum’s everlasting assortment, the Sánchez is now positioned in a room close to Pablo Picasso’s 1937 portray Guernica, which is likely one of the Reina Sofía’s most well-known sights.
The museum mentioned the harm was not critical, according to El Pais. “It’s an accident, happily of few penalties,” a spokesperson mentioned. The harm to the work “was small and with none intention.”
This isn’t the primary time a murals has been broken because of particular person taking a selfie. In 2020, for instance, a customer to the Museo Antonio Canova in Possagno, Italy, broken a plaster mannequin of a Nineteenth-century sculpture, breaking off two if its toes. In an analogous vein, in 2017, a customer to a Yayoi Kusama present on the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Backyard in Washington, D.C. smashed a pumpkin sculpture whereas taking a selfie, leading to what the museum mentioned was “minor harm” to the work.
