A group of environmental activists threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, southwest of Berlin.
According to the information, four members of the environmental organization Letzte Generation participated in the event, who on their Twitter account reported that the act is a way to draw attention so that “society remembers that the course of fossil fuels is killing us all.”
We make this #Monet the stage and the public the audience.
If it takes a painting – with #MashedPotatoes or #TomatoSoup thrown at it – to make society remember that the fossil fuel course is killing us all:
Then we’ll give you #MashedPotatoes on a painting! pic.twitter.com/HBeZL69QTZ
— Letzte Generation (@AufstandLastGen) October 23, 2022
After throwing the mash, both activists stick to the wall and the woman launches a proclamation where she says that we are facing a climate catastrophe.
“We are in a climate catastrophe. And the only thing you’re afraid of is tomato soup and mashed potatoes in a painting. Do you know what I’m afraid of? That scientists say that in 2050 we will not be able to feed our families. Will this mashed potato make you listen? The painting will be worthless when we have to fight for food.”
Museum officials are already assessing possible damage to the artwork, which belongs to the Los Almiares series. The two people who threw the mash into the painting were arrested.
This is not the first act of this type of the organization, because a couple of days ago they threw tomato soup at the painting Sunflowers, by Vicente Van Gogh, which is in the National Gallery in London.
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