The cleaners did a fantastic job at the Museion Bozeen-Bolzano in Italy, scrubbing the room clean of the empty champagne bottles, a disco ball, glasses and confetti after the “party” on Friday night.
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The artists, Sara Goldschmied and Eleonora Chiari, were not so pleased.
The work is only visible when the museum is closed, after dark, so viewers can get the full effect of the aftermath of a wild party.
The gallery posted a note on Facebook stating that the piece will be reinstalled. It reads, “The work will be restored soon”. “We told the staff just to clean up the foyer and to leave everything else alone” said Letizia Ragaglia, the museum’s curator, when speaking to Alto Adige, a local newspaper.
A few people have been known to say that modern art is rubbish, but in one museum in Italy, the cleaner has quite literally thrown the artwork out with the trash.
However, the crowd in attendance proved to be particularly tidy and when she came in the next morning the woman thought the foyer was too immaculate to be the area she had been asked to attend to. In 2001, a Damien Hirst installation consisting of a collection of beer bottles, coffee cups and ashtrays, was cleared away from an art gallery in London. In 2004, a bag of paper and cardboard by German artist Gustav Metzger was thrown out by cleaners at the Tate Modern, in London.
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For their part, the art duo who created the piece are being pretty chill about it. “It takes more than a broom to wipe out a decade of Italian history and declare an artwork rubbish!” they told IB Times UK.
