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― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 August 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

A bag of rubbish that was part of a Tate Britain work of art has been accidentally thrown away by a cleaner.
The bag filled with discarded paper and cardboard was part of a work by Gustav Metzger, said to demonstrate the "finite existence" of art.
It was thrown away by a cleaner at the London gallery, which subsequently retrieved the damaged bag.

The 78-year-old artist replaced it with a new bag. The gallery would not reveal whether he would be compensated.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 August 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahah well, that certainly showed the finite existence of art then, didnt it? =)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha i was thinking that!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Custodial Arts 1, Fine Arts 0.

― briania (briania), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Hasn't this happened before? To a Damien Hirst thingy?

― robster (robster), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Read the whole article, Robster.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

It is not the first time such a mistake has been made. In 2001 a cleaner at a London's Eyestorm Gallery gallery cleared away an installation by artist Damien Hirst, having mistaken it for a pile of rubbish.
The collection of beer bottles, coffee cups and overflowing ashtrays was said to represent the chaos of an artist's studio.

And in the 1980s the work of Joseph Beuys, which featured a very dirty bath, was scrubbed clean by a gallery worker in Germany.

I think these three cleaners are my new heroes, having worked as a cleaner myself I have much more respect for them than for some posh art fucks.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, reading the article might've helped.

― robster (robster), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I really hope he doesn't get compensated. That would piss me off no end.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes that would just be stupid. In the Independent it said that both the original rubbish bag and the replacement were both just found anyway, not made.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

compensate him by dumping a rubbish bag outside his front door.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"sorry mate, here's 50 bags of rubbish, take your pick! love, tate xo"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha Gavin Turk to thread:

http://www.kunstikeskus.ee/info/pilt/veneetsia/pisi/gavin_turk_f_v.JPG

This is made of bronze. Ooh trompe l'oeil innit.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I like that actually. Wouldn't catch a cleaner walking off with that.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

that one is good in that it isn't like, just a bag of rubbish.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Metzger should be pleased that the art met a dramatic* end, instead of continuing to be ignored as a stupid bag of rubbish.

*Dramatic in that it got a news article written about it, which is more than it deserved...

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

...said to represent the chaos of an artist's studio.
Just as my shoe on a pedestal would represent my shoe. (And it's a very nice shoe.)

I love conceptual art when it works.. but sometimes, it's just plain stupid.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i love the concept of conceptual art.. in practice, it's just plain stupid.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 August 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

SO who else thinks the artist told the cleaner to do his job, so to speak?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

omg he so must have!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

the new piece should of been a bag that has been compacted into a small cube

― kephm, Friday, 27 August 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

jesus what a bunch of philistines!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

PICASSO? MY KID COULD DO THAT!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

RUBBISH BAG? OUR FLAT COULD DO THAT!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

if my kid would put their rubbish in a bag for once i'd be so happy.

― ken c (who has a kid?) (ken c), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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