In 2011, in a museum in the German city of Dortmund, a cleaning lady destroyed a work of modern art, insured for 800,000 euros. The piece entitled “When it starts to drip from the ceiling” was a basin containing, as it were, sediment from dripping from the ceiling. The cleaning lady saw the dirty basin and wiped it thoroughly, thus performing one of the most powerful artistic acts in the history of modern art. Showing that even if it was worth 800,000 euros - and in fact, in fact, ordinary dirt.
In February 2014, history repeated itself in Italy.
At the museum in Bari, a cleaning lady threw away a couple of crumpled paper exhibits and swept away cookie crumbs from the table, which, as it turned out, were part of an installation worth 10,000 euros.
History repeated itself a third time. And again in Italy. In the city of Bolzano, a museum cleaner saw the installation "Where are we going to dance tonight?", Representing champagne bottles, cigarette butts and confetti scattered on the floor. And, of course, she threw it all out of the room.
How subtly it was all the same noticed: