This Banana Was Duct-Taped to a Wall. It Sold for $120,000.

originally posted by: Spiramirabilis
I don't know - is it?

You tell me

I can't. My question was rhetorical.

a reply to: daskakik

Yes - I saw too late

:-)

originally posted by: gortex
$120 Grand right there !

The fruit and tape in question was the work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, and it literally is just a banana duct-taped to a wall, titled “The Comedian.” CBS News reports that there are actually three “editions” of the work of art, two of which have been sold. The third banana is expected to go for an even higher $150,000.
On the one hand, the hundred-thousand-dollar banana duct-taped to a wall is Good. People always like to dismiss modern art as simplistic, often remarking, “I could make that.” The go-to comeback to this statement is, “Yeah, but you didn’t.” Hate all you want, but you didn’t just make a couple hundred grand by attaching maybe a dollar’s worth of produce to the wall with three pieces of tape from a roll that couldn’t possibly have cost more than 10 bucks. Maurizio Cattelan did.
www.gq.com...

Conceptual BS at its finest .... but it gets better !
Yesterday a performance artist removed the banana from the wall and ate it ! .... in the name of art of course.

But it's OK , another banana was used to replace the one consumed because it's not the banana that's the art it's the concept !

Lucien Terras, spokesman for the Perrotin Gallery, told the Miami Herald that Datuna did not 'destroy' the artwork because 'the banana is the idea'.
Gallery founder Emmanuel Perrotin said Maurizio's work is about how objects move through the world.
www.mirror.co.uk...

Mad World.

Things are worth what people are willing to pay. Nothing new

a reply to: gortex

Obviously a payoff for something.
Who is the artist and what does he do when not taking things to walls?
Who bought the 'art'?

For those asking/suggesting this is some kind of payoff, this is an already famous artist, one of his better know pieces being a toilet made from pure gold.

a reply to: ArMaP

How deeply have you looked into the connections and nitty gritty of this artist and where his money goes. I'm curious. These people are very sneaky.

a reply to: ArMaP
Only speculating for fun.
They just invested early. Who says the artist can keep all the money?

a reply to: gortex

Its laundering money sceme... keep your eyes on the ball.

originally posted by: Puppylove
How deeply have you looked into the connections and nitty gritty of this artist and where his money goes. I'm curious.

Zero, I haven't looked into his connections, have you?

These people are very sneaky.

What do you mean by "these people"? Artists?

a reply to: gortex

Modern art is money laundering. Nothing more, nothing less.

a reply to: gortex

gl doing that in my tesla, we won't stand that behaviour here -.-