Originally published at: The $120,000 Banana Was Just Eaten | Infostormer.com
The banana duct-taped to a wall that sold for $120,000 was just eaten.
Remember the banana duct-taped to a wall and labeled “art” that sold for $120,000? On Saturday, a New York man walked up to the art installation and ate the banana.
The banana art, titled “Comedian,” was the work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. It’s a part of Emmanuel Perrotin’s outer gallery wall at Art Basel in Miami Beach. The piece sold for $120,000 to a French art collector.
Around 1:45 p.m. in front of a convention center full of art lovers, New York-based performance artist David Datuna ate the banana, gallery representatives told the Miami Herald.
He called it “Hungry Artist.”
A dismayed Peggy Leboeuf, a partner at Perrotin Gallery, frantically told Datuna, “But you’re not supposed to touch the art!”
The gallery reported the incident to security, but Datuna slipped away.
Lucien Terras, director of museum relations, said the work was still salvageable.
It’s likely that the guy who ate the banana was in on all this stupidity. Of course, we’ll probably never know for sure.
But the museum director saying that the $120,000 banana that was just eaten can be replaced with another banana is totally insane.
This level of stupidity is incomprehensible. The fact that we have to explain why a banana duct-taped to a wall is not art is psychologically draining.
Modern art is bullshit and it is a disgusting byproduct of this horrible Jew-dominated society we have.