Metz, France | AFP – Painting Origin of the world (1866), by Gustave CourbetIt was doused with red paint on the afternoon of Monday the 6th of this month at the Center Pompidou in Metz, according to the French art foundation that lent the work to the Musée d’Orsay.
The museum told AFP that the painting representing the female gender was protected by glass.
French-Luxembourgian artist Deborah DeRobertis He was mainly responsible for the work called “You Can’t Separate the Woman from the Artist.” The lawyer of one of the protest participants said she wanted to join “a global movement of young female artists of all disciplines.”
Center Pompidou Metz in France, where “The Origin of the World” is on display. filming: Bogdan Lazar – Stock.adobe.com
Five works were tagged with the phrase “Me Too,” according to the Center Pompidou Metz. Museum director Chiara Parisi said: “With due respect to feminist movements, we are shocked by the acts of vandalism against the works of artists, especially feminist artists, who are at the heart of conflicts in the history of art.”
Deborah De Robertis explained that she wanted to “challenge art history” by writing “Me Too” on Kubert’s famous painting, “because women are the origin of the world.”
Metz Public Prosecutor Yves Badorc said that two young women with no criminal record were arrested this afternoon. He added that a third person who was not arrested might be behind the theft of another business.
The painting “Origin of the World” is smeared with paint. filming: Jan-Christophe Verheijen/AFP
A work by Deborah De Robertis entitled Mirror of the origin of the world On display near Kubert’s painting, in an exhibition at the Center Pompidou in Metz dedicated to the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
Deborah De Robertis was sentenced in 2020 in France to a fine of 2 thousand euros (10.9 thousand Brazilian reals), due to her nudity in 2018 in front of the grotto of the Shrine of Lourdes. She was released on several occasions after similar actions, the most important of which was in 2017, when she was naked in the Louvre Museum in Paris, in front of a painting. Mona Lisa.
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