{"id":9862,"date":"2018-04-09T07:55:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=9862"},"modified":"2018-04-09T07:55:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:55:35","slug":"tidbits-from-the-art-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=9862","title":{"rendered":"Tidbits from the Art World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I figured after some weeks of heavy-duty politics I’ll turn to some events in the art world that caught my attention. Do I hear a collective sigh of relief?<\/p>\n

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You might have read about a recent incident at Honk Kong’s Harbour Art Fair. Cleaners mistook a sculpture by Carol May for thrash and threw it out; when they realized their error, it was too late, the sculpture was already compacted and destroyed. I don’t blame them – the object was a screen-printed cardboard box with the McDonalds Logo on it – looking like the real thing, with the twist of an unhappy mouth instead of a happy one.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I can’t help but grinning at the irony – this is not the first time that art focussed on the throw-away mentality and excesses of our society experiences that very fate.<\/p>\n

In 2015 an art installation by Goldie Chiari of empty booze bottles and party favors, titled\u00a0Where shall we go dancing tonight,\u00a0<\/em>was removed by the cleaners. Luckily the champagne bottles and party poppers survived their trip in the trash bags and dustbins, and were re-installed after discovery of the mishap.\u00a0https:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/10\/27\/modern-art-exhibit-mistaken-for-trash-and-thrown-away\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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The director of the Museion Bozen Bolzano even touted this mishap as a great opportunity to discuss what is art. A question I am unable to answer, in this and so many other cases…. and I am seemingly not the only one.<\/p>\n

In 2008 someone fell into a 9ft tall ceramic sculpture by Tatiana Fernandez at London’s Royal Academy and broke it. Subsequent museum visitors and staff thought that the hundreds of shards and larger broken pieces lying around were part of the exhibition. We have clearly added refuse to our schema of what constitutes modern art.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Except for the cleaning crews. Untouched by the intricacies of the evolution of art, they blithely go about their business.<\/p>\n

It has happened to Damien Hirst – in 2001 a janitor at London’s Eyestorm Gallery cleared away\u00a0his pile of beer bottles, ashtrays and coffee cups (meant to represent the life of an artist).<\/p>\n

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It has happened to Gustav Metzger – \u00a0in 2004, the German artist’s installation Recreation of First Public Demonstration of Auto-Destructive Art<\/i> was on display at the Tate Britain. A museum employee accidentally threw part of it away, a trash bag standing in close proximity to the sculpture.\u00a0The bag was later recovered, but it was too damaged to display. What is an artist to do? Well, Metzger replaced it \u00a0with another bag full of trash. Go figure.<\/p>\n

My favorite of all times, though, are mishasps based on good old German Hausfrau values. “In 1986 a 400,000-euro grease stain by Josef Beuys was simply mopped up in Duesseldorf. In 1973 two women cleaned up a baby bathtub Beuys had wrapped in gauze and bandages so they could use the container to wash dishes after an event.” And in 2001 a cleaning lady scrubbed away the “dirt,” a thin layer of paint, in an installation of a bathtub in Dortmund by the late Martin Kippenberger .<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/cleaning-lady-destroys-contemporary-sculpture-with-her-scrubbing\/a-15510231<\/a><\/p>\n

Photographs are of \u00a0“art pieces” in another universe, perhaps.<\/p>\n

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