The hunter is hunted again. Noh Hyun-soo, a South Korean fine arts student, has once again eaten the banana taped to the wall by Maurizio Cattelan, a provocative artwork by the controversial Italian maker that was on sale for €110,000. It is the second time that this Catellan installation has awakened the viewer’s hunger for art. The same thing happened four years ago at the Art Basel fair in Miami, when the piece had already sold. What happened at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul was like a ‘performance’ that went beyond the daring of the provocative Italian artist. Noh Hyun-soo thought of Cattelan’s famous installation, consisting of a banana attached to the wall with a strip of duct tape. He took it off the wall, ate almost all of the fruit sparingly, and put the bowl back on the wall, as shown in the videos broadcast on social networks collected by the BBC and the Korean channel KBS. ‘Coemdiante’, the controversial work at the presentation in Miami. RC The work is titled ‘Comedian’, which gives clues to the intentions of Cattelan, born 62 years ago in Padua. But this time the young student went further and decided to become the main actor of the comedy. Before the bewildered looks of museum visitors, Noh Hyun-soo devoured the banana that was part of the ‘WE’ exhibit. He said he did it because he skipped breakfast and had an empty stomach. But he admitted to police that it was a premeditated act. “Damaging a work of art can also be seen as a work of art. I thought it would be interesting… Isn’t it stuck there to eat it?” wondered Noh Hyun-soo, for whom Cattelan’s work is nothing more than “a revolt against authority” Born provocateur And he’s right. Cattelan is a born provocateur who showed in ‘La Nona Ora’ (1999) how Pope John Paul II was crushed by a meteorite, billed America 2016 Gold, a solid gold toilet that was on display in the public restrooms of New York’s Guggenheim for a year, then offered President Donald Trump instead of a Van Gogh painting to decorate the White House. In ‘Him’ he depicted Hitler with the body of a child and his hands folded in a praying position. Sold for 15 million euros, it is one of Cattelan’s most famous pieces and his price record In the piece ‘Without fear of love’, the artist emerges from the floor of the Hotel de la Monnaie in Paris. Hiler, protagonist of ‘Him’, Cattelan’s most expensive work. sold for fifteen million euros. RC The performance of the young Korean had no criminal consequences, as the museum decided not to claim damages. According to the artist, the middle banana was replaced by another, as is done every three days, by the way, to prevent the fruit from rotting in the museum facilities. “No problem,” Cattelan said. who took the incident with humor. He had experienced a similar situation in 2019 when a New York ‘performer’, David Datuna, also ripped the banana off the wall and ate it at the Art Basel fair in Miami. The piece on display at the Perrotin gallery had already sold and the video went viral, as it did this time. Datuna then assured that Cattelan “was a genius”, but that he resold “the amount of money he made on a banana that cost 20 cents”. Cattelan’s solid gold toilet on display in the public restrooms of the Guggenheim in New York and later presented to President Donald Trump to decorate the White House ‘Banana & Orange’ a banana and an orange attached to the wall on a green background with duct tape and preceding at Cattelan’s. He asks for 400,000 euros, an amount he estimates as the profit the Italian artist made from the sale of the ‘copies’ of Monford’s work.
Source: La Verdad
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