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.”
“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…