Rubbish art
October 27 2015
Picture: Telegraph
From Italy, another one of those 'cleaner clears up art because they thought it was rubbish' stories:
An avant-garde art exhibition at a museum in Italy ended up being thrown in the bin after overzealous cleaners decided that it must be rubbish.
The installation, entitled “Where shall we go dancing tonight?”, was supposed to represent the hedonism and political corruption of the 1980s.
Created by Sara Goldschmied and Eleonora Chiari, artists from Milan, it consisted of cigarette butts, empty bottles, paper streamers, confetti and discarded shoes and clothing.
When cleaning staff turned up for work at the Museion museum in Bolzano in Italy’s German-speaking Sud Tyrol province, they assumed that the mess was left over from a party the night before.
They promptly started clearing up, throwing the objects into bin bags. They conscientiously divided the items into different recycling sacks for glass, plastic and paper.
I think the idea of recycling contemporary art could catch on.
Update - a reader writes:
I want an invitation to the party they hold to reconstruct the assemblage. Lots of Champagne bottles there.
