Greenpeace activists install huge artwork by Anish Kapoor on North Sea gas rig | Greenpeace

Greenpeace activists set a gas platform on the scale, stretched a canvas of 96 square meters on its side and stained it from Crimson, during a demonstration designed with Anish Kapoor.

The work, in the North Sea, would be the first work of art exhibited from a working gas extraction platform.

“I call him massacred,” the British sculptor told the Guardian. “I refer to the butcher’s shop in our environment. It is with the simplest blood on a canvas. It is a reference to destruction – bleeding – of our environmental place, of our state, of our being. ”

Early Wednesday, Greenpeace activists, who had waited for the perfect weather conditions, sailed aboard the Arctic Sun Lever to the Skiff of the shell rigging, at 45 naval miles off the coast of Norfolk.

Seven experienced climbers set the platform on the scale, raised a farm 12 meters by 8 meters on its side and stretched the large canvas through it. They then used a high pressure hose to spray a deep red spot on it.

The blood solution, designed specifically for works of art, was a mixture of seawater, beet powder and non -toxic food -based color, said Greenpeace.

The work, erected during the fourth heat wave this summer, was intended to transmit “the great suffering of extreme weather conditions”, said a source from the environmental campaign group.

Kapoor said he wanted work to dissipate collective amnesia around the real causes of climate break. “There seems to be, first of all, a collective desire not to look at who are the real authors of global warming,” he said.

“We seem to live in an era of denial – I mean [by] President of the United States of Bloody A, and the rest, and many others. And then there is meaning among all of us that we are guilty, we, each individual. “Oh I use much less plastic, or if I turn on the lights, or if I am.”

“Our global collective witness, if you wish, to global warming represents less than 10% of real figures. Most of them are caused by these large oil and gas companies. ”

Greenpeace has a long history of action on fossil fuels and other environmental damage facilities at sea. Last year, Shell agreed to settle a controversial trial of several million dollars against the organization of the campaign during an action in the previous year which saw activists occupy a mobile oil platform off the Canary Islands for 13 days.

Kapoor said that he had been “deeply interested” in the “heroic” actions of Greenpeace for some time, and for several years, he had been in connection with Greenpeace UK to find a way to get more actively involved.

“And then there was this idea about a year ago to do something on the gas platform, the oil platform,” he said. “I thought of what we could do and I came with Massacre.”

There was no guarantee that the work could be carried out properly, and yesterday’s action had in fact been a second attempt, after a first look last year, Kapoor told Guardian.

The artists called “colleagues, friends, people of all kinds” to join the protest.

“It is our duty as citizens of … to have at least a kind of political agenda,” he said.

“It is tragic that governments everywhere prohibit demonstrations – not only prohibiting it, in fact, stop people. What’s wrong with us? I think it is our law and our duty as citizens – how do governments dare to walk in this space.

“If people wish to protest against Palestine, they should, and many other things.