Is that still art? The artist Maurizio Cattelan attached a banana to a wall with adhesive tape. What sounds like a bad joke can actually make a lot of money. The ‘work of art’ is now being auctioned.
According to auction house Sotheby’s, a banana taped to the wall could fetch up to 1.5 million dollars (about 1.4 million euros) at an art auction in New York. The work titled ‘Comedian’ by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan will be auctioned in November, Sotheby’s said.
Performance artists simply ate the banana
Cattelan, known for his often bizarre sculptures, presented the banana installation at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019 and set a price of $120,000. American performance artist David Datuna then tore the banana from the wall and ate it.
Fruits are replaced every two or three days
A few years later, a similar incident occurred at a museum in South Korea, where an art student removed the fruit from the wall, peeled it, ate it, and then stuck the peel back on the wall.
Cattelan was not bothered by that, they said. According to his instructions, the ripe banana on the wall should be replaced every two to three days.
Source: Krone
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