The Maffei Palace Museum in Verona, Italy, recently released a video of surveillance inside the museum on the Internet. According to the video screen: a tourist in pursuit of photo effects, in flagrant disregard of regulations, only to enjoy the precious art exhibition“Van Gogh chair”, caused its collapse on the spot.
According to a CBS report on the 15th, video footage shows a woman first leaned on the back of a van Gogh chair to create the illusion of a“Sitting position”. Her male companion then sat directly on the chair. The chair, decorated with thousands of Swarovski crystals, collapsed when it could not support the man’s weight. Seeing the disaster, the woman quickly pulled up his partner to flee.
According to the report, “Van Gogh Chair” was created by renowned Italian artist Nikolai Bora and was directly inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting chair. The works of complex technology, value is immeasurable. “Some people will do anything to get their picture taken,” said the director of the Maffei Palace Museum, “Although [ the broken chair ] was an accident, running away without doing anything was not an accident,” the museum said, calling on visitors to respect the art and culture of the exhibition. Netizens condemned the tourists and called for legal action. The damaged Van Gogh chair has been restored and is now back on display, according to the museum.