An artwork featuring real fruit has been sold at auction for an exorbitant price, attracting a lot of attention.
Artist Maurizio Cattelan's “Comedian” is a banana duct-taped to a white wall on Wednesday. I got it According to NBC News, it sold for $6.24 million at Sotheby's auction in New York.
The piece was first exhibited at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019, drawing a crowd of people, one of whom took a banana from the wall and ate it as a snack.
Breitbart News reported Sunday that the banana art was worth more than $1 million.
Chloe Cooper-Jones, an assistant professor at Columbia University's School of Art, said the work “lies at the intersection of kind of humor and something very creepy.” He frequently considers ways to provoke us, not just to provoke us, but to make us look into things like the darkest parts of history and ourselves. ”
Cooper-Jones pointed out that the banana itself can be seen as a symbol of colonialism and corporate power.
Cooper-Jones said: “It would be hard to think of a better, simpler symbol of world trade and all its exploitation than the banana.”
In a social media post Wednesday, new york post shared It posted an image of the banana art, which sold for more than $6.2 million, and added, “But we made it ourselves for only $5.75.”
When talking about his work in 2021, Cattelan says: said“For me, The Comedian wasn't a joke. It was an honest comment, a reflection on what we value. At art fairs, speed and business rule, so I thought… I thought: If I have to participate in a fair, I can sell bananas like others sell paintings. I can play within the system, but by my rules. I did.”
video footage show At a recent auction, a piece of banana art shows two men wearing aprons and white gloves standing next to it. Bidding started at $800,000.
Sotheby's said the artist “urged the world to rethink how we define art and the value we ascribe to it.”
