Activists of the Ultima Generazione group have multiplied similar actions in recent weeks, while COP27 must end Friday.
MO12345lemonde with AP and AFP
A new work of art was the target of environmental activists on Friday, November 18. Protesters threw flour on the BMW M1, a sports car, exhibited in Milan, Italy, painted in 1979 by American pop art Andy Warhol.
saying that he wanted to “launch the alarm about climate collapse”, four activists from the Ultima Generazione group (“latest generation”, in Italian) paid eight kilos of flour on the car exposed to the Fabbrica del Vapore, A cultural center which currently devotes a retrospective to the master of pop art. At least two activists then stuck their hands on the floor of the exhibition hall, invectivated by visitors while others were trying to clean the macular work, according to images broadcast by the group and online newspapers.
The activists of the Ultima Generazione group had also targeted during this month a work by Van Gogh, in Rome and a painting by Gustav Klimt, in Vienna. The two works were protected by windows, they were not damaged. The group requests stricter political measures to combat global warming. Its recent actions coincide with the United Nations Climate Summit (COP27), which must end on Friday.
In the past few weeks, other defenders of the environmental cause have multiplied actions aimed at works of art in the world, in order to alert public opinion over global warming. They have, for example, stuck their hands on a painting by Goya, in Madrid, projected from the tomato soup to the sun gogh sunflowers, in London, and spread out potatoes on a masterpiece Work by Claude Monet in Potsdam, near Berlin.