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Crypto boss eats banana art he bought for $6.2 million (rfi.my)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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[–] 90 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For anyone else wondering:

"The artwork owner is given a certificate of authenticity that the work was created by Cattelan as well as instructions about how to replace the fruit when it goes bad."

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Is it really the same artwork, in that case?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Bingo, that's the point. It's a statement on the value of art. At the end of the day, a painting is just a piece of linen with shit smeared all over it. You might as well just tape a banana to the wall and be done with it. But it also shows something else - art isn't just paint smeared canvas. It has meaning behind it and it evokes emotion.

    So this guy eating it and pissing off 90% of people does the best thing that he could have done. Also, the remaining 10% know that it is not about the banana on the wall which was replacable. It was about the emotions - the outrage, the trolling. It is the same artwork - since art isn't just paint / just a banana.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    This is something I've never really stopped to think about until now, but this artwork is actually a piece of genius.

    It's an idea, or a concept, expressed in the form of a banana taped to a wall. It cannot be destroyed, or duplicated. You can tape a banana to a wall, but there can be only one banana taped to a wall. You can destroy the banana, the tape, or even the wall, and the artwork remains, because you cannot destroy an idea. In fact, someone already has eaten the banana.

    Furthermore, everyone talking about it merely increases the value of the piece.

    It's absolutely genius.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Ductaping a banana on a wall needs instructions?

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