Friday, November 4, 2011

My new hero?

The German cleaning woman who accidentally destroyed a $1 million work of "art".
File this one under "O" for "Oops." A cleaner with the best intentions accidentally destroyed a piece of art worth more than $1 million when she removed what she thought was a "stain" from the installation. Spoiler alert: It wasn't really a stain.

The piece of art, titled "When It Starts Dripping From The Ceilings," features a series of wooden planks and a (formerly) discolored plastic bowl. The artist, the late Martin Kippenberger, intended for viewers to understand that the bowl had been discolored by water running over the pieces of wood.

Unfortunately, the bowl isn't so discolored anymore. A spokesperson from the art museum in Dortmund, Germany, remarked that "it is now impossible to return it to its original state."
Naw, you might be able to fix it. Any Home Depots in Germany?

Interestingly, the reaction of the private owner who loaned the artwork to the museum was captured on film.

6 comments:

LibertyAtStake said...

Kind of like Barry giving his 'historic' Cairo speech 'with the best of intentions.' We know you meant well, Barry.

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Anonymous said...

Call me a philistine!

I can do that sort of "art" for far less than that.

It seems to me it's something like becoming a highly paid CEO, not what you know but whom you know!

Yojimbo said...

I'd say she "ruined" about $20 worth of "art". The "artist" must have had trouble getting to the bank because he was laughing so hard at finding some idiot who would pay that much money for nothing.

RebeccaH said...

Good grief. Well, the artist is dead, so he can't fix it, but surely the curators can come up with a little paint, or some wood stain. If they'd done it without telling anyone, would anyone have noticed the difference?

SwampWoman said...

I want the name of that cleaning lady!

JorgXMcKie said...

I have this theory: If you average cleaning lady can't tell it's not crap or trash or filth then it's not art.