Life might imitate artwork however typically 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 art work consists of 1 ripe banana duct taped to a wall. The scholar approached the exhibit, unpeeled, ate, after which re-taped the peel again onto the wall.
“The scholar advised the museum he ate it as a result of he was hungry,” a spokesperson for the Leeum Museum advised CNN.
The museum later changed the previous banana with a brand new one, saying that Cattelan had been advised in regards to the incident however “did not have any response to it.” No additional motion is being taken towards the scholar.
“Comic” was first debuted in 2019 throughout Miami Artwork Basel the place one version of it bought for $120,000 and two others bought 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,” vendor Emmanual Perrotin of the Perrotin Gallery stated by way of social media in a press release following its removing, citing security issues with the crowds that the exhibit drew in. “When Maurizio first advised me about his thought, I by no means as soon as anticipated that it might turn out to be what it’s as we speak. ‘Comic,’ with its easy composition, in the end 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 operating a solo exhibit on the Leeum Museum known as “WE” which is able to run by July 16.