A new work of art was targeted this Friday by environmental activists to raise awareness about the future of the planet. It was this time in Italy, in Milan, that activists covered a BMW repainted by American artist Andy Warhol with flour, claiming to want to “sound the alarm about climate collapse”.
Four militants of the Ultima Generazione group (Last generation in Italian) poured eight kilos of flour on the car, a 1979 BMW M1, on display at the Fabbrica del Vapore, a cultural center that is currently devoting a retrospective to the pop-art master. 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.
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.