Beer can artwork in the Netherlands accidentally thrown in the trash

The artwork, titled All The Good Times We Spent Together, by French artist Alexandre Lavet, at first glance looks like two dented, discarded beer cans. However, a closer look reveals that they are actually meticulously hand-painted with acrylic paint and took a lot of time and effort to create.

But their artistic value was overlooked by a museum employee who found them in the elevator and threw them in the trash. Froukje Budding, a spokeswoman for the LAM museum, said the artworks were often left in unusual places like elevators to surprise visitors.

Alexandre Lavet's artwork All the Good Times We Spent Together looks like two dented beer cans. Photo: Alexandre Lavet

After a break, curator Elisah van den Bergh returned to find the cans missing. She quickly found them in a trash bag and retrieved them before they were thrown away.

“We have now placed the work in a more traditional position on its pedestal so that it can rest after its adventure,” Budding said. She stressed that she did not blame the employee, who had only recently joined the museum. “He was just doing his job,” she said.

“Our art encourages visitors to look at everyday objects in a new light,” said Sietske van Zanten, museum director. “By displaying artwork in unexpected places, we amplify this experience and make visitors pay attention.”

This is the latest in a series of unfortunate incidents that have occurred at art galleries and museums. In 2023, a hungry man ate a banana taped to the wall of a work by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan at a gallery in Seoul.

In 2011, a cleaner in Germany damaged a £690,000 work of modern art because he thought it was an aesthetic nuisance that needed to be scrubbed clean.

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