意大利清潔工不小心把現代藝術作品丟進垃圾桶大綱

A cleaning woman in southern Italy has unwittingly thrown away contemporary artworks that were supposed to be part of an exhibition.

Lorenzo Roca, head of the cleaning company, said the woman "was just doing her job" when she thought two artworks were part of rubbish left behind by those setting up for the show that opened on Wednesday in Bari.

Show organisers said one of the works she gave to a city sanitation crew before dawn included pieces of cookies, which were scattered on the floor, as part of an artistic arrangement.

Mr Roca said the cleaning company would use its insurance coverage to pay for the trashed art works, whose value was estimated at 10,000 euros ($13,700).

The cleaning woman is not the first person to fail to recognise a piece of contemporary art.

In 2001 a piece of art by Damien Hirst consisting of an ashtray, dirty coffee cups, empty beer bottles and crumpled newspapers was thrown away by cleaners at a London art gallery.

In 1999 Tracey Emin was on the verge of winning the Turner Prize for her conceptual piece "My Bed," when one of the museums's patrons saw the exhibit and, believing that it had been vandalised, straightened it up and made the bed.據英國《每日電訊報》報道，在意大利南部，一位女清潔工不小心把當代藝術作品扔進垃圾桶，這些作品是一個展覽會的一部分。

清潔公司的負責人洛倫佐·羅卡說，這位女清潔工只是做了她自己應做的工作，她把那兩個藝術作品當做是爲了19日在巴里（Bari）開幕的展覽所做的陳設留下的垃圾。

展覽負責人說，在黎明之前交給城市衛生人員的工作包括散落在地上的餅乾，這是作爲藝術佈置的一部分。

羅卡說，清潔公司用他們購買的保險來賠償被扔掉的藝術作品，這些藝術作品的價值估計是1萬歐元（1.37萬美元）。

這位女清潔工不是第一位辨認不出當代藝術作品的清潔工。

2001年，在倫敦的一個藝術畫廊，達明·赫斯特（Damien Hirst）的作品也被清潔工扔進了垃圾桶，其中包括一個菸灰缸、髒的咖啡杯、空的啤酒瓶和皺巴巴的報紙。

在1999年，特雷西·埃明（Tracey Emin）因爲她的概念作品“我的牀”（My Bed）即將獲得泰納獎（Turner Prize），當一個博物館的觀衆看到了這幅作品，以爲牀被弄亂了，還把牀給收拾了併疊好了被子。