Vienna’s Leopold Museum has tilted 15 paintings by the number of degrees unchecked climate change could affect the landscapes depicted.
Gustav Klimt’s well-known Attersee lake painting tilted by two degrees, Egon Schiele’s painting of a tree in late autumn rotated by five degrees.
As part of the initiative “A Few Degrees More”, Vienna’s Leopold Museum has tilted 15 paintings by the number of degrees unchecked climate change could affect the landscapes depicted.
The initiative, launched on Wednesday, comes after climate activists poured black liquid over a glass screen protecting a Klimt piece at the museum.
“We want to contribute to raise awareness of the dramatic consequences of the climate crisis,” museum director Hans-Peter Wipplinger said.
Developed together with the research network Climate Change Center Austria, the action runs until late June.
Wipplinger dismissed the November “attack”—one of a string of similar protests by activists in London, Rome and other cities to highlight the climate emergency—as “absolutely the wrong way” to raise awareness.
2023-03-23 22:00:03
Source from phys.org
