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When I started dating my now husband, the decor in his dorm apartment included a banana that he and his roommates had drunkenly taped to the wall. ...Twelve years later, believe it or not, he still has it in a plastic bag somewhere in our apartment.
So imagine my surprise when I arrived at the VIP preview for Art Basel Miami Beach and discovered that Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan had done exactly the same thing. The most important difference being, of course, that this version—sourced from a local Miami supermarket and on sale from Perrotin, the Parisian gallery with locations in New York and across Asia—cost a cool $120,000.
"We sold it already," announced a triumphant Emmanuel Perrotin as I took a close look at the piece, titled Comedian. The buyer, a French woman, has bought work from the gallery before, but never a work by Cattelan, I was told.
By the time I left the booth, a deal on a second edition of the piece had also been closed, sold to a French man. (Perrotin told him about my husband's banana, to reassure him that the banana would age well, and the collector threatened to buy that one instead.)
[...] After the second sale, Perrotin quickly texted Cattelan, and the two agreed to raise the price to $150,000 for the third edition of the work, which they have decided to sell to a museum—and two institutions have already expressed interest, according to the gallery. (There are also two artists proofs of the work, only one of which is for sale.)
[...] The artist wouldn't speak to the work's meaning, but he was partially inspired by the large number of paintings he's seen at galleries recently. "I'm not in Miami, but I'm sure it's full of paintings as well," said Cattelan. "I thought maybe a banana could be a good contribution!"
https://news.artnet.com/market/maurizio-cattelan-banana-art-basel-miami-beach-1722516
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @07:21PM (10 children)
I'm going to shit in my hand and throw it at a blank canvas hanging on the wall. The title of my artwork shall be called "Shit" and the starting bid is $150,000. I might take it up a notch by eating a pound of black licorice, two big macs, and having a ruptured hemorrhoid to give it some color.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @07:29PM (6 children)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_Shit [wikipedia.org] more or less already done.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @07:59PM
Needs "+1, Depressing" mod.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @09:03PM (1 child)
Those are Italian food rations.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 12 2019, @12:07AM
No, the food ratios sell for less.
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Wednesday December 11 2019, @09:13PM (1 child)
They should send a can of it to this guy. [youtube.com]. I'm not suggesting that he actually eat it, just that it would be a delightfully absurd mashup.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 11 2019, @09:59PM
Just Eat It [theguardian.com].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 12 2019, @12:35AM
Well ... shit
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 12 2019, @02:24AM (1 child)
Replying to myself...
I'm going to duct tape a dildo to the front of my garage door and call it "Drive In".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 12 2019, @03:31AM
If the piece includes the garagedoor we have a deal!
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday December 12 2019, @04:13AM
It's been done. Of course, the artist was a chimpanzee....
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