The art student says that the kidnapping was a rebellion against the art authorities. This is not the first time that Cattelan’s work has ended up being eaten.
An art student ate a banana taped to a wall in a museum in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, which was an artist by Maurizio Cattelan installation.
Among other things, the news covered the matter The British Broadcasting Company BBC (you will switch to another service).
Titled The Comedian, the artwork was part of Cattelan’s We exhibition at the Leeum Art Museum in Seoul.
Among other things, distributed by the South Korean broadcasting company KBS by video (you switch to another service) see you when Well Hyun-soo A student named – removes a banana from the wall. In the background of the video, someone tries to stop Noh by shouting before he starts eating the piece.
After eating the banana, Noh taped the peels back to the wall. Noh said he was hungry after skipping breakfast.
Later, Noh told local media that it was a rebellion against a certain authority.
– Defacing a work of art can also be seen as art, I thought it could be interesting… Isn’t it taped there to be eaten? Noh told KBS.
The Leeum museum has commented to the local media that it does not intend to demand compensation from the student. According to the BBC, Cattelan himself commented that eating the work is not a problem.
The banana taped to the wall is changed every two or three days.
This is not the first time that a museum visitor has eaten Cattelan’s work. In 2019, a performance artist David Datuna ate a banana off the wall after the piece sold for $120,000 in Miami.
Even then, the banana was quickly replaced with a new one and no legal action was taken against Datuna.