Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s iconic art piece Comedian – a ripe banana duct-taped to a wall and on display at an art museum in Seoul – was eaten by a college student in an act he described as “artwork”.
The student ate the fruit on Thursday. The work is part of Cattelan’s solo exhibition WE currently running at the Leeum Museum of Art.
At the event showing some 38 works from the 1990s, the student took the banana, peeled it and ate it. He reattached the peel back to the wall using the existing tape. When the museum staff asked why he ate it, the student, who is an art major at Seoul National University, replied that he skipped breakfast and was hungry.
In a phone interview later with a local broadcaster, he confessed that he thought “damaging a work of modern art could also be artwork”. He added that he came up with the idea to reattach the banana peel, thinking it was a fun way of looking at it. Cattelan’s banana is being replaced every two to three days, according to the artist’s instructions provided before the exhibition. The museum has decided not to claim damages against the student.In 2019, a performance artist named David Datuna took the banana on display at the Perrotin gallery at Art Basel in Miami minutes after it was sold for US$120,000 and ate it.The artist’s first solo exhibition in South Korea at the Leeum runs through July 16.
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