$1m artwork damaged by cleaner
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'damaged'? Some would say improved on. Wtf is it meant to be?
TheBBC said:
An art installation worth more than $1m (£624,000) has been damaged by an overzealous cleaner who tried to scrub away a deliberate patina.
The patina was meant to look like a puddle beneath a rubber trough placed under a stacked tower of wooden slats.
Artist Martin Kippenberger's When It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling remains on display in Dortmund's Ostwall Museum, where the damage occurred.
The work is on loan to the museum.
The private collector who owns the installation by Kippenberger - who died in 1997 - has agreed that it remain on display despite the incident.
Dortmund city spokesperson Dagmar Papajewski said it had not been decided whether the patina would be restored.
"It will be up to the collector to decide," Ms Papajewski told AP. "We can't consult Kippenberger about it."
Ms Papajewski said the company that employed the cleaning staff had been working with the museum since October last year and had told their staff to stay at least 20cm away from the artwork.
Kippenberger was a prolific artist who produced work in a wide range of styles and media. His portfolio included sculpture, paintings, prints and installations.
His works have been displayed at New York's Museum of Modern Art, London's Tate Modern and London's Saatchi Gallery.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15613227The patina was meant to look like a puddle beneath a rubber trough placed under a stacked tower of wooden slats.
Artist Martin Kippenberger's When It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling remains on display in Dortmund's Ostwall Museum, where the damage occurred.
The work is on loan to the museum.
The private collector who owns the installation by Kippenberger - who died in 1997 - has agreed that it remain on display despite the incident.
Dortmund city spokesperson Dagmar Papajewski said it had not been decided whether the patina would be restored.
"It will be up to the collector to decide," Ms Papajewski told AP. "We can't consult Kippenberger about it."
Ms Papajewski said the company that employed the cleaning staff had been working with the museum since October last year and had told their staff to stay at least 20cm away from the artwork.
Kippenberger was a prolific artist who produced work in a wide range of styles and media. His portfolio included sculpture, paintings, prints and installations.
His works have been displayed at New York's Museum of Modern Art, London's Tate Modern and London's Saatchi Gallery.
0a said:
Here's my artwork.
Oh wait it's a bag of kindling.
No! No! That is a masterpiece... absolutely out of this world, the best I have seen in decades.Oh wait it's a bag of kindling.
The wonderful interpretation of Rome falling in a day... the incredible precise placement of each and every kindle.
The sealing of the cello bag to give such immense clarity... the detail, the magnitude of destruction... Priceless. Ceh magnifico!
I used to work amongst these prats... does it show?
dandarez said:
0a said:
Here's my artwork.
Oh wait it's a bag of kindling.
No! No! That is a masterpiece... absolutely out of this world, the best I have seen in decades.Oh wait it's a bag of kindling.
The wonderful interpretation of Rome falling in a day... the incredible precise placement of each and every kindle.
The sealing of the cello bag to give such immense clarity... the detail, the magnitude of destruction... Priceless. Ceh magnifico!
I used to work amongst these prats... does it show?
Victor McDade said:
'damaged'? Some would say improved on. Wtf is it meant to be?
It's currency, nothing more. Art critics would disagree but then again art critics are talentless, up themselves mugs who, in a desperate attempt to escape being ordinary, delude themselves that they have the ability to see meaning and beauty in products that have neither.
t boils my piss.Streps said:
$US1.1 million for a bunch of slats.
The cleaner deserves a medal
I think this is an obvious fake AICMFP
A definite insurance scam, was that Robert Vaughn leaving the building en route to Weatherfield?
At the Met, I nearly took out one of these installation pieces by walking into it!
It was a piece of thin white twine in a corner, anchored on one wall about 60cm off the floor and then anchored at the bottom of the other wall at floor level if that makes sense.
No barriers, no sign, nothing.
It was a piece of thin white twine in a corner, anchored on one wall about 60cm off the floor and then anchored at the bottom of the other wall at floor level if that makes sense.
No barriers, no sign, nothing.
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