On March 22,2023, visitors look at a painting by Gustav Klimt at the Leopold Museum in Vienna. A Vienna museum where climate activists recently attacked the glass screen shielding a Gustav Klimt painting has responded with an exhibit entitled A Few Degrees More' that tilts to draw attention to the need for action on climate change.
Activists from the group Last Generation smeared the screen in front of Klimt's Death and Life at the Leopold Museum in Vienna and glued their hands to it in November, calling for an end to drilling for oil.
Hans-Peter Wipplinger, the museum's artistic director, told Reuters on the opening day of its response that global warming of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels would have an effect on the landscapes depicted in them.
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According to the United Nations'Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC emissions must be halved by the mid- 2030s if the world is to have a chance of limiting the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, a key target in the 2015 Paris Agreement.
We wanted to initiate something productive, something communicative. That means conveying a message and not just in spectacular images such as the protest, but by helping visitors learn about the situation and the various contexts of global heating, Wipplinger said.