Two women were arrested in Stockholm after paint was thrown at a painting by the French artist Claude Monet and then they will stick to the frame to protest the health situation caused by the loss of wetlands in Sweden.
This is a modality that repeats what happened a few months ago with works of Vincent Van Gogh and Leonardo Da Vinciwhich in other European cities were also vandalized within the framework of a proclamation environmentalist.
The painting, entitled “The artist’s garden in Giverny”, was part of an exhibition that was taking place these days at the Stockholm National Museum.
The work was encased in glass and “is now being examined by museum curators to see if any damage has occurred,” said museum spokeswoman Hanna Tottmar.
The climate movement “Restore Wetlands”, Aterstall Vatmarker in Swedish, assured in his profile of Twitter that two of its activists, after staining the painting with red paint, have stuck to the glass that protected the painting in question.
The proclamation of environmentalists
“The situation is urgent. As a nurse, I refuse to look. The pandemic was nothing compared to climate breakdown. It’s about life and death,” shouted one of the women, identified in a press release as Emma Johanna Fritzdotter. People will not only die of heat stroke. New diseases will spread, and we can’t even imagine their extent,” he added.
Helen Wahlgren, a spokeswoman for the activist group, said the aim of the action at the museum was to put pressure on the Swedish government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “We have to do everything possible to draw attention to this climate catastrophe and our demands to restore wetlands that store large amounts of carbon,” said the activist.
“They want to draw attention to the fact that the climate crisis is also a health crisis, and that heat-related illnesses are becoming a growing problem,” said movement spokeswoman Roxy Farhat, according to reports. the Swedish public television channel SVT.
“The Artist’s Garden at Giverny,” which Monet painted in 1900, is the latest museum artwork targeted by climate activists to draw attention to global warming. In October, British group Just Stop Oil had thrown tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at London’s National Gallery.
Just Stop Oil activists also stuck to the frame of an old copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, and John Constable’s “The Haywain” at the National Gallery.
Source: Ambito
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