When the taped banana was launched in 2019, it immediately went viral. And now it’s time again. The Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s work “Comedian” is to be sold at auction on November 20 and the price is expected to land around 1 to 1.5 million dollars, which corresponds to 11 to just over 16 million kroner.
But what is the actual purpose of the work? And how does it work when the banana rots? In the clip, Kulturnyheter’s Kristofer Lundström goes through it and banana art through history.