Here's a breakdown of the saga of Maurizio Cattelan's banana at Art Basel Miami Beach.
At 9 a.m. on Sunday, the final day of the fair, Perrotin gallery prematurely removedfrom the wall of its booth. "We sincerely apologize to all the visitors of the fair who today will not be able to participate in 'Comedian,'" it said in a statement. "'Comedian,' with its simple composition, ultimately offered a complex reflection of ourselves."
Tragic as its unexpected removal may have been, the opportunity to reflect on the work's nuances arose at long last. Cattelan first had the idea to create a sculpture of a banana a year ago, and had been meditating on how best to execute it ever since. "Bananas are important.
earlier this year, describing the fruit's strange familiarity as "uncanny and uncomfortable." "It is also a topos of modern and contemporary art—from Giorgio de Chirico's 1913 canvasto Andy Warhol’s 1967 cover for the Velvet Underground & Nico’s debut album—many artists played with the peculiarities of its shape, politicizing it and carving out meanings in their own right.
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