In plain sight of art aficionados and influencers, a prankster removed a $120,000 banana from an Art Basel exhibition in Miami Beach on Saturday, peeled it and then ate it. It happened on the second-to-last day of the art show, where much fuss and head scratching this week has been over a solitary banana — an overripe one — duct-taped to a wall. Three buyers paid between $120,000 and $150,000 this week for limited-edition pieces featuring a single banana, created by the artist Maurizio Cattelan and titled “Comedian.” Each came with a certificate of authenticity and replacement instructions, which perhaps should have included a disclaimer: for display only. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/arts/art-basel-banana-eaten.html Apparently, the banana itself was not worth that much, but the idea, so it's been replaced until it got taken down for good: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/arts/design/banana-removed-art-basel.html Still have no idea what was so special about this installation that people were willed to pay that much for it |
| Nothing can beat the finesse and grandiose of eating potato chips while slaying degenerates. |
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| rich people just wasting money instead of paying more taxes |
| That's hilarious, and since it's an idea that was being sold (although I wouldn't spend $120k on an idea unless it was a written game or movie pitch), it's literally unruinable, you can't destroy an idea afterall. |
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| It's just a banana how could it cost $120,000 ? |
 "I want to show that woman the true Yoshikage Kira. I want her to hear how I feel deep inside. That I want to take your slender neck into these hands and strangle you to death." |
Lonely_Ronin123 said: It's just a banana how could it cost $120,000 ? The banana is worthless, it's the idea that's worth 120k. |
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Hoppy said: Lonely_Ronin123 said: It's just a banana how could it cost $120,000 ? The banana is worthless, it's the idea that's worth 120k. What a worthless idea , no way it's worth that much |
"I want to show that woman the true Yoshikage Kira. I want her to hear how I feel deep inside. That I want to take your slender neck into these hands and strangle you to death." |
| I imagine the comedy comes from ridiculing the situation where people in this bourgeois world buy this banana for 120k, while so many others starve. There is a comedic irony to it, I will admit. I need to figure out how to market my junk to rich people so I can be set in life. |
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| Feels like the whole thing was meant to be. |
MasterGlyth said: Agreed, so much "creativity" has to be lying around under a bed or in a cushion lolI imagine the comedy comes from ridiculing the situation where people in this bourgeois world buy this banana for 120k, while so many others starve. There is a comedic irony to it, I will admit. I need to figure out how to market my junk to rich people so I can be set in life. To be fair to the idea, it is good at bringing out interpretations. I saw it as comedy, embodied in the banana cause of its use in yesteryear as slapstick, being bound--representing the current atmosphere of comedians being bound by society from using their brand of humor. |
| "In the end the World really doesn't need a Superman. Just a Brave one" |
| > Draw a few random lines on a canvas > Use your artistic galaxy brain to think of a reason to call it "art" > Sell it to some rich person for a fat check > Get your art placed into a museum and leave it for future generations wondering how high you were when creating the masterpiece. |
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| Reminds me of that Banksy piece that was destroyed as soon as it was sold at auction... and subsequently made even more valuable because of it. |
| People who put MAL stats in their sigs are losers lol |
| that better be one good banana. i love that dude who ate it. |
Reina_Orikasa said: > Draw a few random lines on a canvas > Use your artistic galaxy brain to think of a reason to call it "art" > Sell it to some rich person for a fat check > Get your art placed into a museum and leave it for future generations wondering how high you were when creating the masterpiece. this seems to sum up modern art museums pretty well i mean i make random art all the time but that doesnt get me into some museum or something lol subjectivity in art is strange. |
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| "Art" is fucking ridiculous, it's just a con to get idiots to part with their money, no talent is need at all. |
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| a lot of the time when you see ridiculous prices on frankly worthless pieces of art, it's just part of a money laundering scheme |
| this guy is a martyr, serves all them autis-I mean artistic rich idiots who pay thousands of dollars right |
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| its like how some people buy expensive painting and ruin them? i like it. |
traed said: Haha, at least the banana got its intended use to be eaten xDFeels like the whole thing was meant to be. deg said: That or it's some money-laundering scheme, as @Salvatia mentionedrich people just wasting money instead of paying more taxes Yudina said: Since when wasn't "modern" art a joke? xPAnyway, I think this is more than just an overpriced banana, but I'm sympathetic to people who just want to use this as more ammunition to write off contemporary art as just a joke No, but seriously: maybe it shows exceptionally great skills to have lines and stuff drawn as precisely as with Picasso works, but they look absolute atrocious in my eyes. Where is the art that aims to be visually pleasing on an universal level? |
| @Noboru "That or it's some money-laundering scheme, as @Salvatia mentioned" I didnt know that was a thing, but damn, if so it's a good one. |
| "In the end the World really doesn't need a Superman. Just a Brave one" |
| A third story on the first page from Florida. Nice. The "artist" apparently wanted to make fun of how things are valued, going to the point where his... piece is something you'd have to replace. So in the end, you're not purchasing anything, really, but the idea. And a piece of tape I guess. But maybe if you keep peeling the tape, you'll need to replace the tape too. However, there's no point in buying an idea since those are free. But hah, look at our absurd world. Some rich snob will still purchase this at 120K. Hence "Comedian." Like wow bro, so deep. Anyway, he may have been trying to dab on the snotty rich guy who actually bought it, but he ended making himself seem pretentious to everyone in the process, lol. Doing what everyone hates about modern art but doing it "ironically" doesn't save you from criticism. He also made a solid gold toilet to represent America. Bleh. |
Silverstorm said: I didn't expect something as ridiculous as this one being worth that much, but the stunt by the "hungry artist" was comedy gold xDI didnt know that was a thing, but damn, if so it's a good one. |
| wish i had 120k to buy such a beautiful work of art |
AnimeFreak-San said: is this a male gender issure...human issue...mental illness perhaps? |
Noboru said: It is a slap down to reality: To the viewers seeing it as art, then he eats it as its function. A man eating a banana, where ever did he get that idea, right lolSilverstorm said: I didn't expect something as ridiculous as this one being worth that much, but the stunt by the "hungry artist" was comedy gold xDI didnt know that was a thing, but damn, if so it's a good one. |
| "In the end the World really doesn't need a Superman. Just a Brave one" |
| The banana isn't what was purchased but the concept, along with instructions on "installation", ie. how to fucking tape a banana to your wall. I can't understand art man. |
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Noboru said: deg said: That or it's some money-laundering scheme, as @Salvatia mentionedrich people just wasting money instead of paying more taxes i heard of money laundering but im not familiar on how it works and google does not give me an idea how to link it to inflating prices like this |
Silverstorm said: Yes, he uses the fruit like how it's supposed to be used xD And he probably got the idea from some monkey :pIt is a slap down to reality: To the viewers seeing it as art, then he eats it as its function. A man eating a banana, where ever did he get that idea, right lol Orhunaa said: Exactly. And I also can't understand "modern art" and anything that stems from "nonsense" like DadaismThe banana isn't what was purchased but the concept, along with instructions on "installation", ie. how to fucking tape a banana to your wall. I can't understand art man. @Yudina: I thought, "contemporary" referred to the respective time the art be in. There are still artists doing classic arts and they are as contemporary as Picasso's is during his time. Sorry, but I'm not interested in the works of arts that looks like a kindergarten child could do :p In fact I think the very fact that this got so much attention in the press, precisely for its hefty price tag, is in some way a justification for Cattelan's point, that no matter the object we are drawn not to art but to the market value of something as an indicator of value or quality. Very good point. I completely agree with you here, though I find it very sad that just because some crazy people have been willed to pay a crazy sum for some crazy "arts installation", it is seen as very valuable, even when it's just junk - though at least partially tasty junk xDedit: @ deg: Sorry dude, but I can't think of something right away, other than artificially pushing the price up and hyping it so you could sell it at a higher price later on while it's declared as some less valuable piece in the declaration of tax |
NoboruDec 9, 2019 3:19 PM
| Must’ve been one tasty ass banana |
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| This is more confusing than that one time I bought a splice your own pet DNA kit from Amazon (and how to summon a succubus). |
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Yudina said: You're definitely getting replacements of tape and banana, for whatever that's worth. Oh, darn. I was hoping you'd have to buy replacements on your own, making the whole thing completely pointless. Still kinda is of course, but the image of someone periodically buying some tape and a banana to replace their 120K work of art was so much more satisfying to me. |
| It was Yoshiko from Aho Girl, she ate the banana. |
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FlowersInTheRain said: Catalano said: It was Yoshiko from Aho Girl, she ate the banana. She enjoys riding them too it seems looking at your signature. She's crazy about bananas, she even wrote a hentai manga with banana characters. |
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| Eh, would have been worth it's price if that was the banana that inspired SOAD to write Vicinity of Obscenity. |
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| Well I guess someone's poop is worth a 120 grand now. |
''Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.'' |
| I wonder how many users got hungry from watching the guy eating the banana. |
 サディスティックな考え "JUST KILL ME." サディスティックマインド |
| I respect the grind. He literally just vibing |
| "alexa, cure my crippling anxiety" |
| Well, I can't even pretend to have sympathy for those simple-minded champagne socialists who are taken in by all this 'abstract art' rubbish and actually think it's reasonable to spend $120,000 on the 'idea' of a bit of stale fruit sellotaped to a white canvas. |
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| That's quiet the impulse. |
| lol why is everything now just exactly identical to how those philosophers would imagine an absurd dystopia would be? Things are just interestingly actualized as every day passes. Thank you whoever ate that banana. |
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| That is as much as spoiled a person can get. |
Preachee said: Absolutely! It's btw quite frightening how complacent people - me included - have become and how arts and architecture have turned into nonsense and bleak appearance in order to keep the spirits of the people lowlol why is everything now just exactly identical to how those philosophers would imagine an absurd dystopia would be? Things are just interestingly actualized as every day passes. superaxon said: What do you mean?That is as much as spoiled a person can get. |
This guy explains pretty well what´s going on behind the scenes.Remember,it´s not about the value of the artwork it´s about money laundering and tax evasion. |
SummerynDec 22, 2019 7:16 AM
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Missaliensan said: This guy explains pretty well what´s goign on behind the scenes.Remember,it´s not about the value of the artwork it´s about money laundering and tax evasion. Very good. Finally some decent explanation about what is happening. |
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