Anish Kapoor work referring to ‘butchering of our environment’ believed to be first fine artwork exhibited from a working gas extraction platform

Greenpeace activists have scaled a gas rig, stretched a 96 sq metre canvas across its side and stained it crimson, in a protest designed with Anish Kapoor.

The work, in the North Sea, is believed to be the first piece of fine art exhibited from a working gas extraction platform.

“I call it Butchered,” the British sculptor told the Guardian. “I’m referring to the butchering of our environment. It is at the simplest level blood on a canvas. A reference to the destruction – the bleeding – of our globe of our state, of being.

  • Redfox8@mander.xyzEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I think everyone fighting this cause is well aware that creating ‘internal reflection’ is pointless. Destroy from without, not within.

    Do we/they need to be moved by every action like this? No. But if these public actions stop then there’s no hope for a better world. Keep the message going, pick pick pick away and make sure that the damage caused is not forgotten.

    They keep going, so the fight must too.