Two members of the Extinction Rebellion activist organization were detained and then released in Melbourne, who glued their palms to a Picasso painting in the National Gallery of the Australian state of Victoria, the online edition of the British daily The Guardian reported on Sunday, adding that the painting was not damaged. yes.
On the part of the climate protection group, they said that they wanted to draw attention to environmental protection with their action, one month before the elections to be held in the state of Victoria, thus they would urge the governments, large companies and institutions to intensify their fight against the environmental disaster.
In the video footage of the action, activists can be seen holding up signs reading "Climate chaos = war and hunger" and "No to coal, no to gas, no to oil, no to logging."
Massacre in Korea was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1951 as a protest against the US intervention in Korea. In the picture, a group of soldiers point guns at naked women and children.
"We have to think about the extent to which suffering is becoming more and more common, and that the social collapse predicted by scientists will one day throw us all into the line of fire"
- said Tony Gleeson, one of the detained and then released activists.
The spokesperson of the organization, Brad Homewood, emphasized: they were aware that the action would not harm the painting, the activists glued their palms to the Plexiglas covering the painting.
The painting was lent to the gallery by the Picasso Museum in Paris.
MTI
