Huge ‘Butchered’ artwork installed on North Sea gas rig by Greenpeace activists
Huge ‘Butchered’ artwork installed on North Sea gas rig by Greenpeace activists
Huge ‘Butchered’ artwork installed on North Sea gas rig by Greenpeace activists
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.