US EditionVisitor Eats Maurizio Cattelan Banana Sculpture at Centre-Pompidou Metz
METZ, FRANCE, JUL 18 – The banana artwork, valued at $6.2 million and regularly replaced, highlights the transient nature of art and has been eaten multiple times since 2019, the museum said.
- A visitor at a French museum bit into a fresh banana worth $6.2 million last week, during a consumption of the conceptual artwork.
- Artist Maurizio Cattelan expressed disappointment that the visitor did not eat the banana's skin and tape, stating they "confused the fruit for the work of art."
- The banana, part of Cattelan's work "Comedian," was rapidly reinstalled after the incident, according to museum staff.
- Cattelan has critiqued the art market and described the banana work as a commentary on its speculative nature and lack of support for artists.
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Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” — a bizarre work of edible art featuring a real banana duct taped to a wall — has been eaten yet again.
Someone has eaten artist Maurizio Cattelan's $9.55 million banana – again
Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's artwork featuring a fresh banana taped to a wall has been eaten by a visitor to a museum in France.The piece, titled Comedian, was eaten by a gallerygoer at the Centre-Pompidou Metz in eastern France on July 12, according to a statement from the museum, published on Monday."The security team acted quickly and calmly, according to internal procedures," the gallery said in the statement.READ MORE: Woman killed, s…
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der Standard DEA visitor to the Centre Pompidou-Metz ate the famous work "Comedian" by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. How do six million dollars taste?
When in November 2024 a cryptobro (expert in attracting inexperienced investors to the cryptocurrency) paid more than six million dollars [about 5,400,000 euros] for a banana glued to a wall with insulating tape, many questioned the artistic value of the piece of Italian Maurizio Cattelan, entitled not in vain Comedian. Others took advantage of it to download their prejudices against the eccentricities of contemporary art. And the buyer, in an a…
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