Activists threw mashed potatoes on a Claude Monet painting in a German art museum on Sunday as part of another shocking food-infused demonstration meant to be a wake-up call to the dangerous implications of climate change.
Two members of Letzte Generation can be seen on video at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam throwing mashed potatoes at Monet’s Grainstacks and then gluing their hands to the wall beneath it.
“People are starving, people are freezing, people are dying,” yelled one protester. “We are in a climate catastrophe and all you afraid of is tomato soup or mashed potatoes on a painting. You know what I’m afraid of? I’m afraid because science tells us that we won’t be able to feed our families in 2050.”
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Nine days ago, activists from Just Stop Oil poured tomato soup on Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in London. The artwork is estimated to be worth $84 million. Monet’s Grainstacks is estimated at $110 million.
Letzte Generation posted the video to its Twitter page, stating that it made Monet the stage and the public the audience. If it takes a mashed potato-pelted painting “to remind society that the fossil course is killing us all: Then we give you #Kartoffelbrei on a painting!” the tweet said, according to a translation.
Wir machen diesen #Monet zur Bühne und die Öffentlichkeit zum Publikum.
Wenn es ein Gemälde braucht – mit #Kartoffelbrei beworfen – , damit die Gesellschaft sich wieder erinnert, dass der fossile Kurs uns alle umbringt:
Dann geben wir euch #Kartoffelbrei auf einem Gemälde! https://t.co/TN1dFKsi94
— Letzte Generation (@AufstandLastGen) October 23, 2022
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Similar to the tomato soup incident, the museum in Germany said that the Monet painting was protected by glass and there appears to be no damage to the artwork. A museum spokesperson also said the police arrived quickly and the protesters’ hands were disconnected from the wall “relatively easily,” per the Guardian.
“Does it take mashed potatoes on a painting to make you listen?” one of the protesters said. “This painting is not going to be worth anything if we have to fight over food. When will you finally start to listen? When will you finally start to listen and stop business as usual?”
