Van Gogh | Three activists throw vegetable soup at Van Gogh’s “The Sower” in Rome

“It can’t be… they got here too. Why don’t they end it once and for all with this story?”, in one of the videos seen about the attack. Some visitors even try to lure the activists, three young women, end your protest.

“We are in a historical moment when a prolonged drought is destroying our crops. This means that there will be no more food in our homes, it is already scarce,” responds one of the activists. “You are angry because We have heated the glass that will be cleaned tomorrow. but we We are talking about war, death and hunger‘, he continues, interrupted over and over by cries of ‘Enough! Enough!”

closed room

The room in which the painting is displayed is closed and Attendees were kicked out that was inside you at the time. Soon after, theMinister of Culture The Italian Gennaro Sangiuliano condemned the events, saying that “the attack on art is a despicable act that must be strongly condemned.” “The culture that is the basis of our identityIt must be defended and protected, and certainly not used as a loudspeaker for other forms of protest,” emphasized Sangiuliano.

The minister considered it, too Art is a victim of climate change Thus, the activists’ gesture “cannot serve as a legitimate expression of protest.” For their part, the exhibition organizers said They did not immediately report the potential damage to the business – usually run by the Kroller-Müller Museum – although the canvas is protected by glass.

Around Infinite attack on artwork After other activists last month They will throw tomato soup against ‘Sunflower’ play.by Vincent Van Gogh, at the National Gallery, also A similar fate was subjected to one of the masterpieces of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, “The Girl with a Pearl Earring”a painting that was in the Mauritius Museum in The HagueAnd the s Haystacks by Claude MonetAnd the It was displayed at the time of the events at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, Germany.