Two climate change activists have painted and glued themselves to Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup can paintings at 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 deliver a message to the Australian Government to stop supporting the oil, gas and coal industries, Australian broadcaster ABC has reported.
The images released by the activists show several blue scribbles on the work, called ‘Campbell’s Soup I’, although it is protected by a glass frame that has prevented it from being damaged.
«Australia needs to step up (the fight), we can’t reduce CO2 while we continue to approve new coal and gas,» the activist group has asserted in a message on its Twitter account.
This protest joins others that have taken place in recent weeks, such as that of two Just Oil environmentalists who threw tomato soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’, exhibited at the National Gallery in London, or those who stuck to the frames of the paintings of ‘Las Majas’ by Goya in the Prado Museum in Madrid.
