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Conceptual work created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was sold at auction in New York last week

The cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun has fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2m (£4.88m) on an artwork featuring a banana duct-taped to a wall – by eating the fruit.

At one of Hong Kong’s priciest hotels, Sun, 34, chomped down on the banana in front of dozens of journalists and influencers after giving a speech hailing the work as “iconic” and drew parallels between conceptual art and cryptocurrency.

“It’s much better than other bananas,” Sun, who was born in China, said after getting his first taste. “It’s really quite good.”

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That banana in the photo looks pretty damn fresh to me, how does that work when it's been some time since the piece was created?

[–] Brkdncr 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The artist replaces the banana. The art is the concept of the banana on the wall, not the banana itself.

It’s like any art that involves water, like a fountain. You can replace the water and it’s still art.

I’m curious if the artist will continue to replace the banana or if they consider their art to be consumed now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think someone else mentioned that the sale included "instructions" on replacing the banana. Which is obviously a joke, but the whole thing is obviously a joke. There's a real "My grandfather's axe / ship of Theseus" thing going on there.

[–] Brkdncr 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, art is weird like this. It’s not the first time someone has created low-effort garbage and sold it for more than its value. It won’t be the last either. But, it’s fun to observe and react to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think calling this "low effort" maybe misses the point. Don't think of this as an artwork in the classical painter sense, but rather as a performance. The effect comes from the process as much as from the result.

And yes, it's easy to say that there was no skill or craft in the performance, but that too is part of the point. Sometimes it not that no one else could do this; it's simply that no one else did.

In a sense you're right that this is intentionally low effort. But I think that also dismisses the creativity, insight, and brazen audacity it took to actually pull this off.

[–] Brkdncr 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Calling it low effort garbage is exactly the point. Art is weird like that. It’s contextual.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I guess in that sense we're saying the same thing.

[–] RizzRustbolt 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He'll try to convince Sun to sell the poop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's Justin Sun. He'll mint an NFT of the poop, fractionalise it and sell it as a new stablecoin.

[–] andrewta 1 points 1 week ago

Make it into banana bread