German cleaner cleans Kippenberger art piece to destruction
Dortmund - A German cleaner has destroyed an art installation by the late artist Martin Kippenberger that was on loan to the Ostwall Museum, Dortmund, Germany, from a private collector.
Over zealous cleaning by a German museum cleaner has destroyed an art installation on loan by a private collector to the Ostwall Museum in Dortmund. “When It Starts Dripping From The Ceilings" is a piece of art by the acclaimed German artist Martin Kippenberger, who died in 1997. Prior to its cleaning the piece was valued at $1.1 million by insurers. TheHerald Sun described the piece as "a tower of wooden slats under which a rubber trough was placed with a thin beige layer of paint representing dried rain water." Mistaking the paint for a stubborn stain the cleaner scrubbed away at it until it was gleaming. The Telegraph reported that museum spokesperson Dagmar Papajewski said "It is now impossible to return it to its original state." Papajewski also said that the cleaner may not have been made aware by the outside contractor of the museums rules that cleaners should remain at least 20cms away from the art on display.
LOL this i must say describe the so called "modern art" perfectly.
Put some garbage together , find a fitting name for it and voila you are famous sculptor.
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean the problem lies with the art.
Exactly the politically correct way of thinking that makes them "art"
I think you overuse the term 'politically correct'. You use it to liberally, and in contexts where it makes no sense.
Also, I don't understand why you hope to achieve by flashing your ignorance. Just because you don't understand art doesn't mean you should vent your frustration on artists or connosseurs. You're just displaying the same attitude the masses have always manifested towards art that was contemporary to them.
"The Emperor's New Clothes" (Danish: Kejserens nye Klæder) is a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that are invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. When the Emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, a child cries out, "But he isn't wearing anything at all!" The tale has been translated into over a hundred languages.[1]
That's the whole truth behind your "ignorance" , "you don't understand" rhetoric.
