After Klimt, Van Gogh and Vermeer, Andy Warhol is now the target. Environmental activists covered a BMW repainted by the American artist with flour this Friday in Milan, claiming to want to “raise the alarm about climate collapse”.
Four activists from the group Ultima Generazione (“Last generation” in Italian) poured eight kilos of flour on the car, a 1979 BMW M1, exhibited at the Fabbrica del Vapore, a cultural center which is currently devoting a retrospective to the master of pop art . At least two activists then stuck their hands on the floor of the exhibition hall, shouted at by visitors while others tried to clean the stained work, according to images released by the group and online newspapers.
Window on climate
In recent weeks, environmental activists have multiplied actions around the world targeting works of art to alert public opinion to global warming.
For example, they stuck their hands on a Goya painting in Madrid, squirted tomato soup on Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ in London and smeared mashed potatoes on a Claude masterpiece. Monet in Potsdam, near Berlin.