Two activists in defense of the fight against climate change they have painted and glued to the pictures of the soup cans Campbell by Andy Warhol in the National Gallery of Australia (NGA).
Specifically, members of the organization ‘Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies‘ have taken responsibility for the vandalism, which they have used to send a message to the Australian Government to stop supporting the oil, gas and coal industries, Australia’s ABC network reported.
Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies is highlighting the danger of capitalism by glueing onto Andy Warhol. Art depicting consumerism gone mad. While Australians starve, Government pays $22,000 a minute to subsidize fossil fuels. #StopFFS #Auspol #Cop27 #ClimateCrisis #FireproofAustralia pic.twitter.com/acSbRO1mWs
— Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies (@stopffsubsidies) November 9, 2022
The images published by the activists show several blue doodles on the work, called ‘Campbell’s Soup I’, although it is protected by a glass frame that has prevented it from being damaged.
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“Australia needs to step up (the fight), we cannot reduce CO2 as we continue to approve new coal and gas,” the activist group said in a message on its Twitter account.
This protest is added to others that have occurred in recent weeks, such as that of two environmentalists from Just Oil who threw tomato soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’, exhibited at the National Gallery in London, or those who hit to the picture frames Goya’s ‘Las Majas’ at the Prado Museum in Madrid.