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Tate Cleaner destroys Turner Prize winner.
A cleaner in the Tate Modern Gallery (London UK) has destroyed last year’s Turner Prize winner: “Lights Going on and off” By Martin Creed.
 The controversial “sculpture”, a series of fluorescent flickering strip lights was ruined when cleaner Jean Brace replaced the failing lamps during a routine light-bulb replacement session.
“I had no idea it was supposed to be art.” Explained Jean from her home in Walthamstow. “I’m too scared to touch anything now.” She added, “so they sent me home.”
The Tate modern has already removed the offending fluorescent tubes and found other failing tubes to replace them, however Mr. Creed, speaking from his home in California yes terday told reporters that the “artistic integrity” of the work had “probably been destroyed”. “I expect that I’ll have to rework it from scratch.” He said.
Martin Creed was paid 20,000 pounds last year when his work won the Turner Prize.
In 2000 a different cleaner, Jean’s brother in law destroyed a sculpture by Cesar, the French sculptor when he mistook it for discarded oil can and threw it away.
The sculpture consisted of a compressed oil can and was worth over a hundred thousand pounds.
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