'They were going to change the banana every few days anyway,' he said.
After Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan went viral last week for duct-taping a banana to a wall and selling it for $120,000, New York-based performance artist David Datuna took a bite of that action — by plucking the six-figure fruit off the wall, peeling it, and literally eating it in front of stunned onlookers on Saturday afternoon. He called his performance “Hungry Artist.”
Read more: Someone paying $120,000 for a banana duct-taped to a wall at Art Basel is the perfect picture of wealth inequality — Mac'Andrews December 8, 2019 I can’t stop watching this video of David Datuna eating the $150,000 banana at Art Basil. To me it sets a really bad precedent; what if someone walks into the Louvre and eats the Mona Lisa? pic.twitter.com/HKVz9Fyjfc
“Oh my God, he was really upset,” Datuna said, telling MarketWatch that Perrotin and a couple of police officers took down all of his information, and warned him that he could be arrested for this. They let him return home to D.U.M.B.O., Brooklyn, however, after taking away his Art Basel credentials for this year. He’s not sure whether he will be allowed back in 2020.
View this post on Instagram The talk of the town in Miami right now is Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian,” a banana 🍌 duct taped to the wall.
“For me, he’s one of the top artists in the world, one of the most interesting artists in the world, and when he did this installation, I think he just did it for fun for everyone. I think it’s really genius,” Datuna said. “So I just had the idea, why can’t I eat it? It’s not about being arrested. This is about a conversation between one artist and another artist, and how artists talk to each other through the art.
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