Art Critic Of The Week (10)

All The Good Times We Spent Together by French artist, Alexandre Lavet, looks remarkably like two discarded and dented Jupiler beer cans to the untrained eye. The LAM museum in Lisse in western Netherlands likes to challenge and surprise its visitors by displaying art work in unusual places and its curator chose to exhibit Lavet’s meisterwerk on the floor of a lift.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a tidy-minded employee, a mechanic who had just started at the museum, saw what they considered to be a carelessly discarded piece of junk, gathered the cans up, and deposited them into a bin bag. Had they given the exhibit a second glance, they might have seen that the cans had been meticulously hand-painted with acrylics, something which a museum spokesman averred would have taken “a lot of time and effort to create”.

Fortunately, the curator, Elisah van den Bergh, noticed that the artwork was missing from the lift and was able to retrieve it from the rubbish bin. It is now being displayed on a traditional plinth to prevent any further misunderstandings.

Modern art, eh?