(Canberra) Pro-climate protesters stuck their hands on the transparent protections of Andy Warhol’s famous work on Wednesday Campbell’s Soupwithout damaging it, said the museum the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, where it is exposed.
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The protest, led by a group called ‘Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies Australia’, comes after a series of climate actions targeting well-known works of art around the world.
The activists also drew graffiti on the protections of the various canvases that make up the work, without damaging them. The covers were then removed for cleaning.
In a press release, the museum reported this “protest” stressing that it occurred “following similar incidents here and abroad”.
The work Campbell’s Soup by Warhol, made between 1961 and 1962, is one of the most recognizable symbols of the American “pop art” movement.
The demonstrators explained that they had chosen it to highlight the “danger of capitalism”.
Other pro-climate activists have recently stuck their hands on Goya paintings in Madrid, splattered soup on Van Gogh works in London, and smeared mashed potatoes on a Claude Monet masterpiece in Potsdam, near Berlin.