A gesture that does not pass! This Tuesday, November 15, 2022, climate activists attacked the work of Gustav Klimt by spraying a black liquid on his painting ‘Death and Life’, announced the Leopold Museum in Vienna according to information from Sud Ouest. ” Conservators are working to determine if the ice-protected painting has been damaged “, explained Klaus Pokorny, the spokesman.
According to our colleagues, the group “Letzte Generation” (Last generation, ed), of which the activists belong, claimed responsibility for this action on social networks. ” Stop the destruction of humanity by fossil fuels. We are descending into climate hell “. This is the message they are trying to convey. Unfortunately, Gustav Klimt’s work is not the only one to be affected. A Goya painting in Madrid was also vandalized, as was the “Campbell’s Soup” silkscreen by Andy Warhol or “Sunflowers” by Vincent Van Gogh.
“Beauty Killers”
Last week, Sud Ouest reported that “ almost a hundred international museums, such as the Prado in Madrid, the Louvre in Paris or the Guggenheim Museum in New York, have declared themselves “deeply shocked by the reckless endangerment” of these “irreplaceable” works. Stunned by these punches, Pascal Obispo strongly condemns the “Letzte Generation” group. The interpreter of “Lucie” even describes the two activists as ” beauty killers on his Instagram account. It’s not the first time the artist has pointed the finger at climate activists. Last October, the 57-year-old singer already spoke about the degradation of Claude Monet’s masterpiece “Les Meules”. ” Naze… What report? “, Sean’s father had dropped, still not convinced by the gesture…
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