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Duchamp’s Dadaism is reinvented in the current era through this accidental act that occurred at the LAM museum in Lisse. One of the employees accidentally threw in the trash a work of art in the form of a beer can entitled ‘All The Good Times We Spent Together‘.
This ‘art attack’ was practiced on a work by Alexandre Lavet inspired by two empty beer cans. However, if we zoom in on the ‘sculpture’, we can see how these are meticulously hand-painted with acrylics. That artistic value would turn to waste, as a mechanic saw them displayed near an elevator and threw them in the trash.
To create the artwork, Lavet didn’t just pick up a couple of cans after a night of debauchery. The artist meticulously hand-painted them with acrylics, explains the gallery, which adds that ‘their creation took a lot of time and effort’.
With luck, conservator Elisah van den Bergh managed to save the art piece. She returned from a short break and noticed that the cans were missing. She retrieved them from a garbage bag just in time, just as they were about to disappear.
Froukje Budding, spokesperson for the LAM museum in Lisse, in the western Netherlands, told AFP that artworks are often left in unusual places, hence why they were displayed in an elevator. ‘We have now placed the work in a more traditional location, on a plinth, so that it can rest after its adventure,’ Budding explained.
