New attack on a work of art. Three environmental activists threw vegetable soup at the ‘planter at sunset’ this Friday. Vincent van Gogh is currently on display at the Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome. The action carried out by Ultima Generazione, the Italian branch of the famous band Extinction Rebellion, came to the fore. rejection and condemnation by visitors who were in the Roman museum at the time.
“No way… they came here too. Why don’t they end with this story once and for all?” is heard in one of the videos seen about the attack. Some visitors are even trying to put an end to the protests of the activists, the three young women.
“We are at a historic moment when a prolonged drought is destroying our crops. That means there will be no more food in our homes, it is already scarce,” one of the activists replied. we dirty a glass that will be cleaned tomorrow. But we We’re talking about war, death and hunger”, he continues repeatedly, “Enough! Enough!”.
closed room
The room in which the painting was exhibited was closed and existing ones were evacuated it was in you then. shortly after andMinister of Culture The Italian Gennaro Sangiuliano condemned the events, considering that “attacking art is a despicable act that must be strongly condemned”. “Culture as the basis of our identityit must be defended and protected, certainly not used as a megaphone for other forms of protest”, Sangiuliano agreed.
The minister also considered art is a victim of climate change and therefore, the activists’ gesture “cannot pass as a legitimate expression of protest.” The organizers of the exhibition they did not immediately report potential harm to the business It is normally run by the Kröller-Müller Museum, but the canvas is protected by glass.
About tenth attack on artwork Last month, after other activists threw tomato soup into Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ at the National Gallery, and one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s masterpieces, ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’, suffered a similar fate. Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, and Claude Monet’s ‘Haystacks’, It was exhibited during the events at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, Germany.
Source: Informacion
