Geysir food dye artist found not guilty

Iceland Monitor, July 6, 2016

Marco Evaristti, the Chilean artist who controversially dyed Iceland’s iconic Strokkur hot spring pink last April, has been acquitted of criminal charges by an Icelandic court.

 

On the morning of 24 April last year, Evaristti poured five litres of red food colouring into the famous landmark in order to create a piece of ‘landscape art’, using the natural surroundings of the Geysir geothermal area as a canvas.