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Visitor Eats Maurizio Cattelan Banana Sculpture at Centre-Pompidou Metz
METZ, FRANCE, JUL 18 – The artwork "Comedian" has been eaten multiple times since 2019, illustrating the artist's critique of art market speculation, with a $6.2 million sale highlighting its value.
- 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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People Keep Eating That $6 Million Banana Duct Taped to a Wall
Someone has eaten Comedian — again. Comedian is the name of the infamous banana duct taped to a wall art installation by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. This time, the incident occurred on July 12. The banana was eaten at the Centre-Pompidou Metz in France. According to the museum, the security team calmly intervened, and the artwork was restored within minutes, presumably after a short trip to the employee break room. It is a real banana, aft…
These Bananas Duct-Taped to the Wall Are Worth Millions. Hungry Museumgoers Keep Eating Them
A visitor recently ate the banana from Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," which was on view at the Center Pompidou-Metz. The artwork, which sold for $6.2 million last year, has met this fate before
"This is perhaps the most eaten work of art in the last 30 years," said the French museum, whose wall a visitor ate a banana from - a conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan that has suffered this fate many times before.
The famous banana of the artist Maurizio Cattelan has been eaten again. The consequences for the crime? None at all.
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