Conceptual work created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was sold at auction in New York last week
The cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun has fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2m (£4.88m) on an artwork featuring a banana duct-taped to a wall – by eating the fruit.
At one of Hong Kong’s priciest hotels, Sun, 34, chomped down on the banana in front of dozens of journalists and influencers after giving a speech hailing the work as “iconic” and drew parallels between conceptual art and cryptocurrency.
“It’s much better than other bananas,” Sun, who was born in China, said after getting his first taste. “It’s really quite good.”
And now we know why people should not have that much money. When you can throw away enough money to change thousands of lives for the better the system is broken.
It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $6.2M?
Also, fuck everyone involved in this nonsense.
There is not a single thing about this that isn’t moronic. Calling the banana art, buying it for millions, or eating it to show off.
Apparently moronic is considered art.It’s wasteful not to eat a free banana. It’s just money laundering
Honestly, there are so many things to be mad at Justin Sun for, but this is a tempest in a tea cup.
The artwork itself was intended to be ephemeral. The banana inevitably rots. Eating it is, arguably, participating in the artist’s intent. The work was itself a play on the insanity of the high art world. Buying a piece of art just to destroy it is a perfect way to engage with that.
And the artist got paid. A creative person doing creative work made money in a world where so much creativity is being ground down to dust or offloaded to machines.
I’d rather focus on being mad at Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and all the other billionaires. This is a million miles from being the real problem.
“The artwork owner is given a certificate of authenticity that it was created by Cattelan, as well as instructions about how to replace the fruit when it turned bad.”
Kinda unbelievable, I assume it’s just to take the tape off and slap it on a new banana
Cattelan is actually a cool guy and this is a troll that has worked for him more than once.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio_Cattelan#Selected_works
My favorite work of his is definitely the one entitled simply “America.”
He made it in 2016. Can’t imagine what might have prompted it…
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So desperate for attention
Now, freeze dry and bottle the poop from digesting said banana.
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- Profit
Jason Shin ate an orange glued to a floor he paid 13.7 thousand pokemon cards for? Who? What? Why should I care?
This is how I know god does not exist.
