Trash art to the trash (¿?)

[POLisPOL]

Posted: 8/28/04 at 2:13am

I can't stop laughing!!!!

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An eminent German artist has had a prized work thrown out with the rubbish by staff at Tate Britain.

Organisers of the gallery's Art And The Sixties show today confessed that a bag of rubbish - part of a piece by Gustav Metzger - was placed in a crusher by a cleaner who had not realised it was art.

A Tate source said: "A cleaner doing her rounds saw the bag of rubbish on the floor and threw it out with the rest of the trash. It wasn't roped off, how was she to know?"

The gaffe happened on 30 June, immediately before Art and The Sixties opened to the public.

It is understood the Millbank gallery has offered to compensate the 78-year-old artist for damage to his work. The bag was retrieved from the compactor, but Metzger is understood to have decided his work had been so badly damaged that he created a new bag of rubbish as a replacement.

The substitute is now chained up in a box at night. Metzger invented autodestructive art in 1959. It is defined as "constructions having a finite existence".

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/28/04 at 2:21am

That is one of the funniest things I have ever heard. It reminds me of the segment in Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe where Trudy tries to explain art to the aliens using an Andy Warhol print and a can of Campbell's finest - "This is soup. This is art. Soup. Art."

[boborunstheshow]

Posted: 8/28/04 at 2:35am

what on earth are you guys laughing at. I think shes beautiful. Sheer brilliance

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 8/28/04 at 2:41am

Lol.

[POLisPOL]

Posted: 8/28/04 at 2:42am

If I worked there I will do the same

[boborunstheshow]

Posted: 8/28/04 at 2:55am

Just imagine his family going to go see it.
"Come on kids! Grandpas got art in the mueseum! Who wants to go see it??"
*kids jump up and down enthusiasticly*