Last week, a visitor from Pompidou-Metz of France took a bite comedian (2019), Maurizio Cattelan’s infamous conceptual artwork involving banana pipes on the walls, announced Friday.
The exhibitors said visitors exhibited fruit at the Museum of Eastern France, and then “safety personnel intervened quickly and calmly.”
The museum tells AFPadding, “The fruit is rotten and it will be replaced regularly according to the artist’s instructions.”
comedian It is one of 30 works by Italian artists currently on display, and there are more than 400 works from Art Moderne from the “Endless Sunday” exhibition to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the central Pompidou-Metz, an outpost of the Paris flagship institution. The show is processed by artist and museum director Chiara Parisi.
Cattelan told the news outlet that he was disappointed that the man hadn’t eaten all the banana’s skin, and the grey tape that hung it on the wall, noting that banana eaters “confused the fruits for the fruits of the artwork.”
“Instead of eating bananas with skin and tape, instead of eating bananas, he said, consuming fruit.” AFP.
comedian Since its debut at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019, it has attracted attention and controversy, with Perrotin Gallery selling the first of three versions of the piece for $120,000. Artnews Previously reported that perrotin “was separated from the second edition shortly afterwards and then hiked the third banana (third banana) purchased by the Guggenheim Museum and then hiked for $30,000.”
The second edition of the work was sold at a new modern auction at Sotheby’s last November for $6.24 million (including fees) and more than four times the estimated $1.5 million, after about 10 minutes of bidding, about a bid of seven online bidders, via phone and conference rooms.
The winning bidder was revealed as Chinese billionaire Justin Sun, the founder of cryptocurrency platform Tron, who ingested the case at a press conference in Hong Kong nine days after the live auction in New York.
In addition to the Sun and the recent events at the Center of Pompidou Metz, comedian It has been consumed at least twice.
During his 2019 debut at Art Basel Miami Beach, performing artist David Datuna ate bananas at Perrotin’s booth, saying he was “hungry.” After getting too much attention, it was also deleted on the last morning of the fair. In 2023, an art student at Seoul National University also ate fruit comedian As part of the exhibition held in Cattelan, the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul. The arts student claimed he had skipped breakfast and was hungry.
