The four activists, members of the Ultima Generazione group, aimed at the work to protest against global warming and fossil fuels. The table, protected by a window, has not been damaged.
Le Monde with AFP and reuters
Italian environmental activists threw, Friday, November 4, soup on a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, the setting in the setting sun, exposed to Rome, protected by a window. The four activists, members of the Ultima Generazione group (latest generation, in Italian), targeted the painting by launching slogans against global warming and fossil fuels. The Italian movement has justified its action
oggi, zuppa di verdura sul “seminatore” di van gogh
Agiamo Per Amore della Vita, Dunque Per Amore dell’Arte!
In a… https://t.co/ipso37mqlo– Ultimagenerazi1 (@ultima generazione)
Several works taken for target in Europe
The setting in the setting sun – a work dating from 1888 showing a peasant seeding his field, with in the background a huge sun – appears in an exhibition dedicated to the Dutch painter at the Bonaparte Palace, on the Place de Venise, right in the center from Rome. The table has not been damaged.
“Attacing art is an unlocstable act which must be firmly condemned,” castigated the Minister of Italian Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, in a press release. “Culture, which is the basis of our identity, must be defended and protected, and certainly not used as megaphone for other forms of protest,” he added.
On a video , we see two young women who throw a liquid substance towards the table. Another woman then joins them, and all three of them stick their hands on the wall of the room, in the middle of indignation cries pushed by visitors.
This is the last action of this type carried out by climate activists, after famous works of art, were targeted in several European cities. At the beginning of the month, two activists of the German movement Letzte Generation (latest generation) had spread potato puree on the glass protecting the canvas of Claude Monet the grinders at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, Germany.
Environmental activists have also stuck on the glass protecting the girl to the pearl, by Johannes Vermeer, in a museum in the Netherlands, and others threw soup on the one that protected the sunflowers, from Vincent Van Gogh, at the National Gallery in London.
The setting in the setting sun is part of the fifty works by Vincent Van Gogh loaned by the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, in the Netherlands, for the exhibition dedicated to the painter in Rome, which was open on October 8. Contacted by the agency France-Presse (AFP) to obtain details concerning the action of activists, the company organizing the exhibition, Arthemisia, did not respond immediately.