$1m artwork damaged by cleaner
Martin Kippenberger's When It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling The cleaner had been told to keep at least 20cm away from the art
An art installation worth more than $1m (£624,000) has been damaged by an overzealous cleaner who tried to scrub away a deliberate patina.
Well, a cleaner is a cleaner!, sorry to the artist's memory, but is it not interesting that the American pop artist Robert Rauschenberg, once famously took a drawing by Willen de Kooning, the famous abstract expressionist painter, (contemporary of Jackson Pollock, and one of the founders of the movement), and intentionally and deliberately erased it. All with the permission and approval of de Kooning. What is interesting also, is that de Kooning, by then very well known and successfull in his own right, reportedly said:
"If you are going to erase a drawing, it had better be a good one!". Rauschenberg reports this anecdote on Youtube. Inadvertently, the cleaner, seems to have created his own "piece", he was told to stay away from the art though. It is amazing how cleaners take over the world after hours, and have access to the great, bad, ugly, small, expensive works of art in museums all over the world. In a way, they are also creators, and curators.
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