Climate protesters put their hands on the transparent protection of Andy Warhol’s celebrated work “Campbell’s Soup” on Wednesday, which was undamaged, the National Gallery of Australia museum in Canberra, where it is on display, said.
The protest, spearheaded by a group called Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies Australia, comes after a series of climate actions targeting well-known works of art around the world.
The activists also drew graffiti on the protections of the different canvases that make up the work, without damaging them. The covers were then removed for cleaning.
An action to denounce the “danger of capitalism”
In a statement, the museum reported this “demonstration” stressing that it occurred “as a result of similar incidents here and abroad.”
Warhol’s “Campbell Soup”, produced between 1961 and 1962, is one of the most recognizable symbols of the American “pop art” movement. The demonstrators explained that they had chosen it to underline the “danger of capitalism”.
Other climate activists have recently gotten their hands on Goya paintings in Madrid, splashed soup on Van Gogh works in London and slathered mashed potatoes on a Claude Monet masterpiece in Potsdam, near Berlin.
Source: BFM TV
