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all just sounds utter nonsense to me

Maurizio Cattelan's provocative artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall has fetched $6.2m (£4.9m) at Sotheby's in New York - four times higher than pre-sale estimates.

The auction house says Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun outbid six other rivals to get the "Comedian" installation of the Italian visual artist on Wednesday.

"In the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience," Mr Sun was quoted as saying.

The taped banana - now perhaps one of the most expensive fruits ever sold - was actually bought earlier in the day for a mere $0.35, according to the New York Times.

"Comedian" was first unveiled to the public in 2019, instantly becoming a viral sensation and also provoking heated debates about what art is.

The installation - which has travelled around the world - comes with instructions on how to replace the banana whenever it rots.

In fact, the fruit has been eaten not once, but twice.

In 2023, a South Korean art student helped himself when the installation went on display at Seoul's Leeum Museum of Art.

The museum later placed a new banana in the same spot, local media reported.

Four years earlier, a performance artist pulled the banana from the wall after the artwork was sold for $120,000 at Art Basel in Miami.

The banana was swiftly replaced, and no further action was taken.

Justin Sun runs the Tron blockchain network, which facilitates some cryptocurrency transactions. Last year the US Securities and Exchange Commission accused him of fraud, saying he had falsely inflated trading volumes of TRX, Tron’s crypto token. Mr Sun denies the charges.

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46 minutes ago, frank_spencer said:

In those kinds of circles £6.2m is nowt to say you own something that has everyone talking about it. Kinda the point with conceptual art.

Anyone could have done it.

There is no quality, artistic brilliance nor value in it.

At least the other stuff lasts and as shite as it may be, it will still retain value.

The only point here, is someone mugging off a wealthy person, who is gullible enough to fall for it.

Conceptual art my arse.

 

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17 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Anyone could have done it.

There is no quality, artistic brilliance nor value in it.

At least the other stuff lasts and as shite as it may be, it will still retain value.

The only point here, is someone mugging off a wealthy person, who is gullible enough to fall for it.

Conceptual art my arse.

 

But no one else did do it.

The art is in the conversation both positive and negative around the piece. The fact people (whether idiots or not) are prepared to pay money for it means the artist has been successful in their endeavours. 

For me the piece itself is shit but personal taste doesn't factor in.

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I'm not sure how the artist has been successful. 

How the art is the conversation, and not the piece itself, is an even greater example of emperor's new clothes.

Or simply a few loons out cunting each other, whilst the populous looks on, laughing.

If his/her efforts were purely to make money then yes.

If they wanted to leave a legacy of brilliant work in art history, then it's a huge failure.

They will be remembered for a fucking banana.

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46 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

I'm not sure how the artist has been successful. 

How the art is the conversation, and not the piece itself, is an even greater example of emperor's new clothes.

Or simply a few loons out cunting each other, whilst the populous looks on, laughing.

If his/her efforts were purely to make money then yes.

If they wanted to leave a legacy of brilliant work in art history, then it's a huge failure.

They will be remembered for a fucking banana.

But they will be remembered. And will have made a few million in the process.

It's taking stuff like Jackson Pollock did to it's next level, Pollock never made a pretty picture but his work is valued at millions and his name is known globally.

Pollock himself had picked up from the likes of Picasso who's artwork was viewed in the same way Cattelan is now by the popular press

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1 hour ago, frank_spencer said:

But they will be remembered. And will have made a few million in the process.

It's taking stuff like Jackson Pollock did to it's next level, Pollock never made a pretty picture but his work is valued at millions and his name is known globally.

Pollock himself had picked up from the likes of Picasso who's artwork was viewed in the same way Cattelan is now by the popular press

I said they'd be remembered. 

Just not in the way of a master.

More a case of a master-baiter. 

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2 minutes ago, Dimron said:

Then you can sell the digested and shat out banana as the next artwork...

Got to pity the next investor 😃

That's not how digestion works. You can't eat food via your arse. Trust me.

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Just now, Cheese said:

That's not how digestion works. You can't eat food via your arse. Trust me.

So what about that lass who used to consume cucumbers?

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3 minutes ago, Dimron said:

So what about that lass who used to consume cucumbers?

No idea. Have you got a video I can study??

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Daddy of them all from 1961

Artist's Shit - Wikipedia

Artist's Shit (Italian: Merda d'artista) is a 1961 anti-artwork by the Italian artist Piero Manzoni. The work consists of 90 tin cans, each reportedly filled with 30 grams (1.1 oz) of feces, and measuring 4.8 by 6.5 centimetres (1.9 in × 2.6 in), with a label in Italian, English, French, and German stating:

A tin was sold for €124,000 at Sotheby's on May 23, 2007.[6] In October 2008, tin 83 was offered for sale at Sotheby's with an estimate of £50,000–70,000. It sold for £97,250. On October 16, 2015, tin 54 was sold at Christies for £182,500. In August 2016, at an art auction in Milan, one of the tins sold for a new record of €275,000, including auction fees.[7] The tins were originally to be valued according to their equivalent weight in gold – $37 each in 1961 – with the price fluctuating according to the market.[3]

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That's my retirement career sorted... I've been spouting shit for 60 odd years so its about time i made some dosh out of it.

Is the world ready for Dimsky?

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