Metz. Courbet’s painting ‘The Origin of the World’ (1866) was sprayed with red paint on Monday afternoon at the Pompidou-Metz Center in eastern France, said the museum, to which the Musée d’Orsay lent the canvas. Paris.
The work, which represents a female sex, was “protected by glass,” the museum’s communication directorate told AFP, which indicated that the police were on the scene to carry out analysis.
The Franco-Luxembourg artist Deborah de Robertis was the one who mainly carried out this “action”, called “The woman is not separated from the artist.”
She had the desire to join a “worldwide movement” of “young women artists of all disciplines,” said a lawyer for one of the participants in the action.
“What was allowed in another era, young people no longer want now,” he continued. “Deborah de Robertis is a great artist who questions us, makes us reflect and makes us uncomfortable,” according to the lawyer.
According to sources close to the artist, arrests were made.
The Metz prosecutor’s office did not comment at the moment.
A work by Deborah de Robertis, called ‘Mirror of the Origin of the World’ is exhibited near ‘The Origin of the World’ as part of the Center Pompidou-Metz exhibition dedicated to the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. In it you can see the artist posing, naked, under the work of Gustave Courbet, a performance carried out on May 29, 2014 at the Orsay Museum.
Deborah de Robertis was sentenced in August 2020 by the French justice system to a fine of 2,000 euros ($2,155) for having appeared naked in 2018 during one of her performances in front of the grotto of the Sanctuary of Lourdes, in the southwest of the country. .
She was also released on several occasions after similar actions, especially in 2017 after she showed her sex in the Louvre Museum in front of the Mona Lisa painting in Paris.
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– 2024-05-07 08:51:07
