Someone ate the banana of art of $ 120,000 Art Basel
There is always money in banana business.
It isa banana. How much could it cost? At Trader Joe's, they are famous 19 cents each. In the eye of Lucille Bluth, ofDevelopment stoppedThey are ten dollars. If you are at Art Basel, in the real world, it could be $ 120,000.
Last week,Emmanuel PerrotinA contemporary art gallery with places in Tokyo, Paris, Shanghai, and elsewhere, has set up a curious art in his art Basel Miami Beach Booth: a single banana, leads to a wall. The asking price? A cool of $ 120,000.
The banana is entitled "comedian" and it is designed by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan - the same guy who created a fully functional gold toilet entitled "America"For the Guggenheim in 2017.
Like the associated pressreported, the work arrives in three editions (two of which have already been sold). The Perrotin has planned to strengthen the price of the third to $ 150,000 and sell it to a museum.
Wherewas The plan - before someone went and ate the banana.
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On Saturday, December 7, the performance artist based in New York David Datuna walked to the "comedian", went out of the wall and eaten him in front of a crowd of participants.
"I respect Maurizio, but it's the performance of art," he said. "Hungry artist." (We do not know if Datuna refers to Cattelan or to himself as "hungry". But we will note that one of them is eating in the video.)
Datuna was escorted on the premises by security after its performance.
But the day was not completely ruined. Like Lucien Terras, the Museum Relations Manager for the Perrotin Gallery, told theMiami Herald, "[Datuna] did not destroy the work. The banana is the idea."
Apparently, when buyers abandon money for "comedian", they get banana and band - but they also get a certificate of authenticity and dict that, when the banana is inevitably going to be replaced. This is the certificate of authenticity that will last anyone who gets the work - not the banana.
Neither Cattelan nor Perrotin proposed instructions on how, exactly, to replace the banana. The only thing we know with certainty: there is reallyis money in the banana support.
