Venice, Gallerie dell'Accademia: blitz by Ultima Generazione to defend the future of the lagoon city

Six Last Generation activists glued themselves yesterday afternoon, around 3:30 p.m., to the wall where Francesco Guardi ’s work entitled St. Mark’s Basin with the Island of San Giorgio and Giudecca is displayed at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice. They stretched a wire in front of the canvas, bearing the date 2044, “the year after which we do not know what will become of the city and the world,” they said. Police were on the scene and proceeded to identify the activists.

The choice to stick under Guardi’s painting that dates before 1774 and depicts the Venetian foreshortening to which the work’s very title refers is a deliberate choice since at the center of yesterday’s protest by Last Generation activists is precisely the fate of Venice, a city threatened by climate change.

“Venice will be habitable for a short time yet,” reads the social post claiming the gesture. "2044, the fate of Venice hanging by a thread. A city that due to decades of criminal policies before long will be flooded with water and see its inhabitants forced to emigrate.
2044, a now unstoppable climate collapse and a ghost town of which there may remain only the view depicted by Francesco Guardi and exhibited at the Gallerie dell’Accademia that we have symbolically chosen to cover.
2024, now, the last moment left for us to choose sides, to resist in the face of sick politics before it makes us climate migrants. We are the ’Last Generation that can save our future and the future of those who will come after us, we have a moral duty to act."

Venice, Gallerie dell'Accademia: blitz by Ultima Generazione to defend the future of the lagoon city

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