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It happened again. Someone entered the museum identified The work of Maurizio Kattelan with a banana stuck to the wall And he decided to eat it.
This time, this point was the center of Pompido-meter in East France, where the infamous comic (2019) was demonstrated in May as part of a major retrospective exhibition, which celebrates the 15th anniversary of the museum. The visitor allegedly reported the banana from the wall and ate it before the guard “quickly and calmly intervened”, according to the announcement of the museum on Friday.
The gallery, it seemed, was not particularly annoyed. “The work was replaced a few minutes later,” he said, adding that the banana is a vulnerable object and “is regularly replaced in accordance with the artist’s instructions.”
KattelanWhich never misses the opportunity for an uncontrollable comment, he told the French news agency AFP, which was disappointed that the visitor was not fully committed. “Instead of consuming a banana with a peel and adhesive tape, the visitor simply consumed fruits,” he said, adding that “he confused fruits with a work of art.”
This, at least, for the fourth time, when the comic was absorbed in the 2019 Art Basel Beach debut, where he became the first page and caused the same eye. The original version was sold for 120,000 US dollars (103,000 euros) Galeri Perrotin – and shortly after that, the performance of the artist David Datun He grabbed him from the wall and ate, saying that it was just “hungry”.
Since then, the “comedian” has become one of the most discussed – and eaten – conceptual works of art recently. In 2023, a student of art at Seoul National University helped to eat banana during the CatTlan exhibition in Art Museum LyumAlso quoting hunger. And in 2024, the Chinese technological businessman Justin San bought a project in Sotheby’s for 6.24 million dollars (5.3 million euros), and then ate a banana at a press conference in nine days.
Despite the delightful nature of the project, each sale includes a certificate of authenticity and detailed replacement instructions – which means that what is on the wall is technically never an original banana, but part of a continuous life cycle of a work of art.
“At the moment, this is perhaps the most eaten work of art over the past 30 years,” the Pompido-Metz Center commented on in its announcement.
So far, no messages have been submitted to the police, and no prohibitions have been announced. At the moment, the fruits returned to the wall – and perhaps this is just a matter of time, until someone else bites it.