This is the second such action by eco-activists in October, with the help of which they are trying to draw attention to the problem of climate change.
Activists of the Letzte Generation group poured mashed potatoes over the painting “Haystacks” by French artist Claude Monet on display at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, Germany, Bild reported on Sunday, October 23.
“People are starving, people are freezing, people are dying – we are in a climate disaster and the only thing you fear is tomato soup or mashed potatoes in pictures… This picture is not important if we are forced to fight. for food,” – said one of the activists.
We do it #Money the stage and the public the audience.
If it takes a painting – there #Mashed potatoes or #tomatosoup thrown in here – to remind society that the course of fossil fuels is killing us all:
Then we will give you #Mashed potatoes in a painting! pic.twitter.com/HBeZL69QTZ
— Last Generation (@AufstandLastGen) October 23, 2022
Museum spokeswoman Caroline Stranz confirmed that mashed potatoes were poured over the painting.
The value of the picture is estimated at 110 million dollars.
The actions of the activists were criticized by the mayor of Potsdam, Mike Schubert, who called them “cultural barbarism”, as well as the Minister of Culture of the Brandenburg Land, Manya Schüle.
Earlier in October, two activists from the Just Stop Oil movement poured tomato soup over Van Gogh’s painting Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London.
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