Africa-Press – Botswana. A group of German climate action activists saturday reached a painting by the French painter Claude Monet, on display at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, a city south of Berlin, to demand measures from the political class to limit climate change.
According to the museum’s spokeswoman, Carolin Stranz, quoted by the Efe agency, the work of Claude Monet (1840-1926), which is part of the series ‘Les Meules’ (‘The Palheiros’, in Portuguese), was pulverized with a viscous mass, which the Lezte Generation group (Última Geração, in Portuguese) assured was mashed potato.
At 18:00, the museum revealed, in a publication, that, since the image is protected with glass, an immediate investigation concluded that it was not damaged.
The museum’s management says that the painting will be on display again from Wednesday.
Four people participated in yesterday’s protest action, including two activists who threw the viscous mass and glued themselves to the ground.
In the video shared on the social network, the Ultima Geração group demands that the political class take effective measures to limit climate change.
On 14 October, environmental activists from the Just Stop Oil movement threw the contents of two cans of tomato soup at the painting ‘Sunflowers’ (1888), by the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, on display at the National Gallery in London.
The frame was slightly damaged.
The Just Stop Oil movement wants the British Government to decree an immediate end to any new oil or gas project.
The group has drawn attention, and criticism, for directing its actions against works of art in museums.
In July, Just Stop Oil activists glued themselves to the frame of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’ at London’s Royal Academy of Arts and John Constable’s ‘The Hay Wain’ at the National Gallery .
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