Well, it was Modern Art, now it's Baroque..........
Posted on 11/07/2011 2:45:53 PM PST by Red Badger
BERLIN - A modern art installation valued at euro800,000 ($1.1 million) was damaged after an overzealous cleaning woman scrubbed away a patina intended to look like a dried rain puddle, a Dortmund official said Friday.
Martin Kippenberger's "When it Starts Dripping from the Ceiling" remains in place at the city's Ostwall museum, despite the damage sustained earlier this month when a cleaner scrubbed away the painted puddle beneath a rubber trough placed under a stacked tower of wooden slats.
The work by Kippenberger, a German-born artist who died in 1997, was on loan to the museum from a private collector, who agreed that it should remain on display despite the incident, said Dortmund city spokeswoman Dagmar Papajewski. In the meantime, insurance adjusters are assessing the damage.
It has not yet been decided whether the patina would be restored, or if the artwork would be left in its newly "cleaned" condition, Papajewski said.
"It will be up to the collector to decide," Papajewski said. "We can't consult Kippenberger about it."
Papajewski said the company that employed the cleaning staff had instructed them to stay at least 20 centimeters (8 inches) away from the artwork and it was not clear why the patina had fallen victim to the woman's scrubbing brush.
"This company has been working with us since last October," Papajewski said.
Kippenberger's works have been displayed at New York's Museum of Modern Art and London's Tate Modern.
Well, it was Modern Art, now it's Baroque..........
I guess that it’s now performance art.
They could always get some Occupiers to stop by and take a dump in the bucket.
Overzealous art aficionado pays a million dollars for crap I would have given him out of my garage for $50.
It should now be called:
The Cleaning Lady’s Critique
I saw something similar at a yard sale.
Looks like she did a really good job..........
“It should now be called:
The Cleaning Lady’s Critique”
Awesome!!
Would make a good hibachi........
Fools.
I would have sold them my shower stall for $400,000.
Now it's called "When it Stopped Dripping from the Ceiling".
Martin Kippenberger: Self Portrait
No loss.
It only had value in the mind of the “artist” and morons in in the gallery that purchased it.
Walt, the janitor said he was aware that the ceiling leaked and he used the pan for a bucket. He was sorry about the mess and asked the cleaning lady to take care of it. The staff was shocked to learn the bucket WASN’T part of the original work.
Leave it as it is and rename it "Ceiling Don't Leak No More."
It looks like a piece from “The Woodstove Collection”
A pile of kindling and rather nice ash pan.
And the best part is that neither the critics nor ordinary viewers will be able to tell the difference!
My rule of thumb has always been; If I can make it, then it isn’t art.
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