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# Anish Kapoor Greenpeace Collab Sends Generic Environmental Message
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/anish-kapoor-greenpeace-collab-sends-generic-environmental-message/
- Published: 2025-08-14T20:30:16.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:03:44.000Z
- Description: Does it add anything to the conversation?
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: In Brief, News, Anish Kapoor, Greenpeace, Protest Art, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025)

A large protest artwork by Anish Kapoor was hoisted onto a North Sea gasplatform today, revealing a 40-by-26-foot (12-by-8-meter) canvas work entitled "BUTCHERED." Protesters connected to Greenpeace fittingly proceeded to cover it with 1,000 liters of a "blood-red" mixture, composed of seawater, beetroot powder, and non-toxic dye. 

The artwork looks closely related to Kapoor's artistic [branding](https://www.arken.dk/en/exhibitions/anish-kapoor-unseen?ref=hyperallergic.com) and comes at a time when most activists are focused on the dire events in Gaza or Sudan. A press release from Greenpeace connects the work to the extreme heat waves and wildfires impacting parts of the world this summer, as well as flash floods in China and northern India.

“The carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels is invisible, but we are witnessing the devastation that its extraction wreaks on our world,” Kapoor is quoted as saying in the statement. “What still remains largely hidden is the responsibility oil giants like Shell bear for causing this destruction and profiting from worldwide suffering.” 

Does it add anything to the conversation? No. Did it piss off the oil andgas industry? Probably, so it can’t be all bad.