Calling for an end to new infrastructure for fossil fuels, two environmental activists from the Just Stop Oil movement stuck their bare hands on the frame of a Van Gogh canvas at a museum in London on Thursday 30th.
The action targeted the 1889 painting “Peach Trees in Bloom”, which depicts a landscape in southern France, which is on display at the Courtauld Gallery, according to the environmental organization and museum.
“We’re sorry… we don’t like doing this, we’re stuck with this painting, this amazing painting because we’re afraid of our future,” 21-year-old activist Louis McKechnie said in a video posted online. by the organization.
Arrested 20 more times, the young man spent six weeks in prison for blocking a motorway in London, known for interrupting a football match in March after he tied himself to a pole.
McKechnie recently told AFP that he is willing to be “public enemy first” to raise awareness of the climate crisis and is taking “non-violent” actions where lives are not endangered.
Courtauld Gallery told AFP that the room where the canvas was displayed was “immediately closed to the public” after the action and it hopes to reopen on Friday.
source: Noticias
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