The art returns to suffer a new attack. This time, in Australia. Two environmental activists dressed in wigs have glued the famous Campbell's Soup Cans artwork by American artist Andy Warhol at the National Gallery in Canberra to demand the Australian Government stop subsidizing fossil fuels.
Before that, they painted on the glass that protects the work while shouting slogans such as "climate crisis" or "artistic protest". Those responsible escaped unscathed as they managed to escape from the gallery before they could be arrested. The Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies group has claimed responsibility for the protest.
This group, which accuses the Canberra Executive of giving the fossil fuel industry some 7,545 million dollars, demands that Australia reduce carbon dioxide emissions and stop approving new gas and coal exploitation projects.
"Let COP27 count!", claimed in another tweet the Australian group of activists, which claims to be part of the global network A22 Network, which promotes civil disobedience on the occasion of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), which takes place between November 6 and 18 in Egypt.
Confirming the incident against the work, which dates back to 1962, the National Gallery of Australia indicated in a statement that this institution "does not wish to promote these actions and will not make any further comments" about it, since the protest is being investigated by police authorities. from the country.
Today's incident in Australia is part of a series of recent protests by climate activists, such as the adherence with glue to the frames of Goya's The Clothed Maja and The Naked Maja paintings at the Prado Museum in Madrid on 5 of November.
Actions that have also taken place in London with Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers, as well as in Rome, where environmentalists chose to throw mash at the painting "The Sower" made by the Dutch artist in 1888, among other artistic works.
These protests, which have emerged strongly this year, demand compliance with the Paris Agreement to limit the increase in global warming levels below 1.5 degrees of average temperature compared to pre-industrial levels.
