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Hungry Artist Eats $120,000 Banana Art Installation

Dec 11, 2019

Do you remember the banana duct-taped to a wall? The one by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan that went on sale at Art Basel Miami Beach for $1,20,000. Well reportedly someone ate that banana.

Yes, we are not joking. According to CNN, a performance artist grabbed the banana off the wall and ate it in front of the crowd.

David Datuna, who describes himself as a Georgian-born American artist, called the act an ‘Art performance by a Hungry Artist’ as he peeled the fruit and took a bite.

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Lucien Terras, director of museum relations for Galerie Perrotin, said “He did not destroy the artwork. The banana is the idea,” Apparently, the value of the work is in the certificate of authenticity and the banana is meant to be replaced. A replacement of the fruit was taped to the wall about 15 minutes after Datuna’s stunt.

Many others felt the money and the banana could have been used in a better way:


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