今度はクリムトに黒い液体　環境団体が抗議で　オーストリア

【ウィーンＡＦＰ＝時事】オーストリア首都ウィーンのレオポルド美術館は１５日、展示されている同国の画家グスタフ・クリムトの名作「死と生」に、環境保護団体が黒い液体をかけたとＡＦＰに明らかにした。（写真はオーストリア・ウィーンのレオポルド美術館に展示されているグスタフ・クリムト作「死と生」に黒い液体をかけた後、手を接着した環境保護団体「ラスト・ジェネレーション」の活動家。同団体提供）
　同館の広報担当者は、「作品はガラスで保護されており、修復担当者が絵画に損傷がないかどうかを確認中だ」と述べた。
　環境保護団体「ラスト・ジェネレーション」がツイッターで、今回の抗議活動を行ったと主張した。
　同団体がソーシャルメディアで共有した画像によると、活動家２人が黒い油のような液体を絵にかけた後、美術館の職員に拘束された。このうちの一人は「化石（燃料）による破壊をやめろ。われわれは気候の地獄に向かって突進している」と叫んだ。
　この日、レオポルド美術館への入場は、オーストリアのエネルギーグループＯＭＶによるスポンサー提供により無料だった。
　欧州ではここ数週間、気候変動に関する行動の欠如への抗議で多くの名作が攻撃対象になっている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/11/16-13:49）

Climate activists poured black liquid over a glass screen protecting Gustav Klimt's masterpiece Death and Life in Vienna on Tuesday, in the latest protest at inaction over global heating.
The work by the Austrian painter was undamaged, Vienna's Leopold Museum said.
Tuesday's stunt follows a string of actions by activists to highlight the climate emergency.
They have glued themselves to the frame of a Goya in Madrid, thrown soup at screens covering Vincent van Goghs in London and Rome, and mashed potatoes on the glass over a Claude Monet.
We were attacked shortly after 11:00 am, Leopold Museum spokesman Klaus Pokorny said.
Last generation Austria, a group campaigning for the Vienna government to stop new investments in fossil fuels, claimed responsibility on Twitter for targeting the Klimt painting.
It shared images on social media of two men pouring a black, oily liquid on the glass protecting the work before being seized by a museum employee.
One of the activists then glued himself to the picture frame.
Stop fossil destruction. We're racing towards climate hell, one of the protesters shouted.
Museum director Hans-Peter Wipplinger said neither the painting nor the frame had been damaged.
The two protesters were not arrested, but are subject to a complaint for serious damage to property and disturbance of public order, a Vienna police spokeswoman told AFP.
Admission to the Leopold Museum was free on Tuesday as part of a day sponsored by Austrian oil and gas group OMV.
The concerns of climate activists... are valid but attacking artworks is definitely the wrong way to go, Wipplinger said.
Austrian State Secretary for Art and Culture Andrea Mayer said it was wrong to risk causing irreparable damage to works of art.
Art and culture are allies in the fight against the climate catastrophe, not opponents, she said.
Dozens of the world's top museums issued a joint statement last week saying environmental activists who targeted paintings severely underestimate the damage that could be caused.
The statement was spearheaded by the Prado in Madrid, and signed by the directors of more than 90 world-renowned museums including the Guggenheim in New York, the Louvre in Paris and the Uffizi in Florence.