Life might imitate artwork however generally artwork imitates itself.
That is the case for an artwork exhibit of a banana that has now been eaten for the second time since its debut in 2019.
An artwork pupil who attends Seoul Nationwide College in South Korea took a chunk out of the exhibit named “Comic” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan contained in the Leeum Museum of Artwork in Seoul.
The paintings consists of 1 ripe banana duct taped to a wall. The coed approached the exhibit, unpeeled, ate, after which re-taped the peel again onto the wall.
“The coed informed the museum he ate it as a result of he was hungry,” a spokesperson for the Leeum Museum informed CNN.
The museum later changed the outdated banana with a brand new one, saying that Cattelan had been informed concerning the incident however “did not have any response to it.” No additional motion is being taken towards the coed.
“Comic” was first debuted in 2019 throughout Miami Artwork Basel the place one version of it offered for $120,000 and two others offered to personal collectors.
A efficiency artist named David Datuna determined to peel and eat the banana in entrance of the crowds of Basel-goers, inflicting the exhibit to be faraway from the artwork present.
“Following suggestions, we eliminated the set up at 9 a.m. this morning,” supplier Emmanual Perrotin of the Perrotin Gallery mentioned through social media in a press release following its elimination, citing security considerations with the crowds that the exhibit drew in. “When Maurizio first informed me about his concept, I by no means as soon as anticipated that it might change into what it’s immediately. ‘Comic,’ with its easy composition, finally provided a fancy reflection of ourselves. I’m eternally grateful to Maurizio for entrusting me with the show of this watershed conceptual work.”
Cattelan is presently working a solo exhibit on the Leeum Museum referred to as “WE” which can run by means of July 16.
