Posted on 11/21/2024 4:51:56 AM PST by C19fan
An art installation of a banana duct taped to a wall that was previously hailed as a 'defiant work of pure genius' has sold at Sotheby's in New York for $6.2 million.
Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's 'Comedian' piece was snatched up by Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, who outbid six other offers on Wednesday.
'After over 6 minutes of heated bidding, Deputy Chairman of Sotheby's and Chairman of Sotheby's China, Jen Hua, placed the winning bid for 'Comedian' on behalf of, Chinese collector and founder of cryptocurrency platform TRON, Sotheby's announced on X.
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Used to use potatoes for free.
He’s no idiot....the buyer intends to eat the banana! :)
Perhaps modern art is just an ad-hoc currency for the very wealthy. It needn’t have any intrinsic value, or even be art, in any real sense.
When crap like this goes for unseemly amounts of money, it is a 99% probability that money laundering is the goal.
What motivates someone to buy a rotten banana on a board, a canvas filled with paint splashed by a monkey, or the output of an “AI” program?
I’ve got an old dropcloth from the last time I did some painting. What do you suppose I can get for it, if I say it was done by a monkey running an “AI” program?
This is what the Bolsheviks called the Bourgeoisie.
A class of wealthy, decadent, depraved groups that look down on the lower class peasants. They have endless money to burn.
I am describing the elitist World Economic Forum EuroTrash.
I consider it intellectual laziness to call a banana taped to a wall “genius”.
If I hung a blank canvas on a wall and came up with the right title for it, I could sell it for a million bucks.
Modern “art” has to rank as an uber-major oxymoron.
The banana duct taped as it is is a cry out about the injustice of the world. The use of the negative space surrounding it is artistic brilliance!
The genius is not as an artist, but as a marketer. Turning a strip of duct tape and a banana into $6.2M has to be one of the greatest returns on investment in history. In pure terms of a free market economy, the guy provided a manufactured good to somebody willing to pay an exorbitant amount for it. Good for him.
That somebody with that kind of cash was willing to shell it out is more a comment on the nihilism of our culture than it is on the marketer who merely took advantage of it, and is now laughing all the way to the bank.
Banana art?
How about this banana:
On sixth flight, Starship’s first ever payload was a stuffed banana:
The buyer can be identified by the hook marks in cheeks.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Can you say, “Money laundering”?
What happens in a weeks time when the banana rots? Does it go up or down in value?
I’m sure many forgeries will soon appear.
Yup! Money laundering.
I’m surprised Hunter didn’t think of this. In 3 minutes he could have duct taped his pipe to a canvas and titled the masterpiece “Not my pipe”
No sucker about it. I am now convinced that the “art world” is a huge money laundering scheme.
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