You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
Artwork mistaken for garbage. Or Garbage mistaken for artwork.
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, you better hope that the beholder doesn’t have a mop. Because if you have art or garbage then there might be a problem.
DATELINE: DORTMUND, Germany.
According to published reports, a cleaning woman at the Ostwall Museum mistook a sculpture for a mess and destroyed it.
The so called garbage or art depending on whether you are an art connoisseur or a cleaning lady was called “When It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling,”.
Apparently IT drips no more.
The garbage or art that no longer drips was valued at over a million dollars.
According to published reports; the late contemporary master had created a tower of wooden slats under which a rubber trough was placed with a thin beige layer of paint representing dried rain water.
Dried rain water? Hmmmm. Nothing says art like dried rain water. Either way, I bet that is messy.
Talk about art imitating life, this custodian thought the art imitated dirt so she tried to clean it, and clean it she did.
SPIC N SPAN
Dirty water clean, artwork irrevocably altered. Hello cleaning lady Picasso.
That’s right, the cleaning lady mistook the art for a stain and she scrubbed it and scrubbed it till the art or garbage shined like the inside of a freshly cleansed toilet bowl.
Thank God for those scrubbing bubbles. Now the museum and all it’s million dollar art is sparkling.
“It is now impossible to return it to its original state,” the museum spokeswoman said, adding that the damage had been discovered late last month and that the work had been on loan to the museum from a private collector.
According to published reports; works of art sometimes fall victim to zealous cleaners. In 1986, a “grease stain” by Joseph Beuys valued at around $550,000 was mopped away at the Academy of Fine Arts in Duesseldorf in western Germany.
I have to laugh.
Art so ugly it needs to be cleaned.
Art so ugly it needs to be cleaned.
And that is crazy.