This is already the third robbery in two weeks, when climate activists throw food on valuable works of art.
17:20•Updated 17:46
Giving up oil is an easy trick.
This is what climate activists from the Just Stop Oil group declared on Monday at London’s well-known wax museum, a moment after the activists had turned the chocolate cake into a king. Charles to the face of the performing wax doll.
– Stop using oil. It’s a piece of cake, shouted one of the protesters.
It was not the first time that activists “caked” a work of art.
At the end of May, a man dressed as an old woman spread the cake as an artist Leonardo da Vinci to the famous La Joconde artwork, i.e. the Mona Lisa in the Louvre museum in Paris.
The work was not damaged because it was protected by bulletproof glass.
The hayfields were pounded with mashed potatoes
On Sunday, activists of the Last Generation group poured mashed potatoes Claude Monet’s On top of a painting belonging to the Heinäsuovat series in the art museum in Potsdam.
In addition, the protesters glued their hands to the wall of the exhibition space.
The environmental movement opposing the use of fossil fuels also published a video about the situation on the messaging service Twitter.
– Do we need mashed potatoes with a painting to get you to listen? This painting is worth nothing if we have to fight for food, said one of the activists, according to the AFP news agency.
The painting with mashed potatoes on top was sold at auction in 2019 for more than 110 million dollars, or almost 100 million euros, to a private buyer, but the work is on permanent loan at the Museum Barberin in Germany.
A spokesperson for the museum said on Sunday evening that the work was behind protective glass and was not damaged. According to the museum, the work will be on display again on Wednesday.
The museum also said that the police were called to the scene. When the authorities arrived at the art museum, the activists were quickly freed from the wall.
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers were covered in tomato soup
A similar protest took place in London almost three weeks ago, when activists threw tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting at London’s National Gallery.
– Which is more valuable, art or life? one of the activists shouted after throwing soup on the painting, the activists declared.
The value of the work painted in the 1880s is estimated to be almost one hundred million euros.
According to the museum, the painting was protected by a glass cover and was not damaged in the rapture.
The activist who defaced Van Gogh’s painting Phoebe Plummer said Art News publication (you will switch to another service) in an interview that environmental activists are trying to get public and media attention to their cause with their antics.
According to Plummer, climate activists are trying to arouse the general public to discuss the difficult topics related to climate change.
There has been enough attention for the raptures.
The video of Sunflowers getting covered in tomato soup has been viewed almost two million times on Tiktok and more than seven million times on Twitter.
Sources: AFP, Reuters