MADRID, 4 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Environmental activists from the ‘Last Generation’ movement have thrown vegetable puree on the four ‘The Sower’ by Vincent Van Gogh, exhibited at the Bonaparte Palace museum, in the Italian capital, Rome, as part of an exhibition dedicated to the painter dutch
Despite everything, the work has not been damaged because it had a glass as protection, something that the activists had, who have recognized that their intention was not to spoil ‘El Sembrador’.
As they have highlighted from the environmental organization, the present is being “overshadowed by a real and imminent catastrophe”, just as the most outstanding elements of the painting – the field, the farmer and his house – are vanished by the puree of peas poured over the paint.
For ‘Last Generation’, its action tries to demonstrate that climate change affects the guarantees of access to food, forces the population to migrate from their homes and highlights the need to bet on a transition towards sustainable energy, according to collects the Italian agency AdnKronos.
“It is a desperate cry, and scientifically founded, that cannot be understood as a simple vandalism, but as the manifestation of a visceral love for life and for art, which can only be protected with serious and timely intervention by governments” , have added since ‘Last Generation’.
Over the last few weeks there have already been several similar episodes of activists from groups like Just Stop Oil who have sprayed paint, poured tomato sauce and even tried to stick their heads on paintings like ‘Los Girasoles’, also by Van Gogh or ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’, by Johannes Vermeer.
