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Posted on 12/07/2019 8:05:47 AM PST by MNDude
A banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $120,000 at Miami's Art Basel this week — it may be the most talked-about artwork at this year's event. Two of the three editions have been sold, according to Perrotin, the contemporary art gallery behind the work. The last one is expected to go for $150,000.
The controversial piece, called "The Comedian," was created by Maurizio Cattelan, an Italian artist who had also entertained art lovers from around the globe in 2017 with his "America" 18-carat-gold toilet. However, the $6-million throne was stolen from England's Blenheim Palace over the summer.
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More proof that “art” has lost it’s relevancy to life.
It’s nothing more than money laundering. That’s what all that high priced garbage art is about.
Again?
Okay, I’m re-posting this, then.
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Old Art Buchwald column:
One day, I went to the supermarket to buy some groceries for my wife. On the way home I stopped at an art gallery where they were holding a pop-art exhibit. Unfortunately, the carton of groceries got heavy, and I left them on the floor. Then, being so moved by what I saw, I left the gallery and went home. “Where are groceries?” my wife demanded. “Oh, my gosh,” I cried. “I left them at the art gallery.” “Well you’d better get them if you want any supper tonight.”
I rushed back to the gallery, but I was too late. The groceries had been awarded first prize in the show. “We’ve been looking everywhere for you,” the gallery owner said. “Why didn’t you sign your work of art?” “It’s not a work of art. It’s my dinner for tonight.” The gallery roared with appreciative laughter.” ”He’s not only a great sculptor, but he has humour as well,” a judge said. “ You can see that in his work,” another judge added. “ Notice how the bottle of Heinz catsup is leaning against the can of Campbell’s pork and beans.” “I’ll never know how he was inspired to put the Ritz crackers on top of the can of Crisco,” a lady said to her escort. “It’s pure genius,” the escort replied. “ Notice the way the Del Monte can of peaches is lying on its side. Even Andy Warhol wouldn’t have gone that far.” “ I think the thing that really won the prize for him was the manner in which he crushed the Sara Lee cheesecake on the bottom of the box.” “It makes Picasso look sick.”
“Look,” I said. “I’m very grateful for all these honors, but my wife is waiting for this stuff, and I have to get it home.” “Get it home?” the gallery owner said amazement. “I’ve just sold it to that couple over there for 1,500 dollars.” “The groceries cost me only 18 dollars”, I replied. “It isn’t the groceries. It’s what you did with them. You have managed to put more meaning into a box of Rinso than Rodin put into ‘The Thinker’. Nobody will ever be able to look at a can of Franco-American spaghetti without thinking of you. You have said with this bag of groceries, in one evening, what Rembrandt tried to say in 1,000 paintings.”
I blushed modestly and accepted his check. That night I took my wife out to dinner, and the next day I went back to the supermarket and bought another bag of groceries, much more expensive than the previous ones, which I immediately took to the gallery. But the reviews were lousy. “Success has gone to his head,” said Washington’s leading art critics. “Where once he was able to produce simple jars of cat food and peanut butter in a wild, reckless, I-don’t-give-a-damm manner, he is now serving up elegant cans of mushrooms and mock-turtle soup. The famous touch is gone and all that is left is a hodgepodge of tasteless groceries.”
Bananas rot....
no pic of the buyer...
That’s bananas!
I prefer the movie.
No doubt.
I don’t see the appeal.
Was the buyer hungry for a snack with no vending machine in sight?
What I really want to know is who stole the $6 million toilet? How do you casually walk out of a building with a toilet?
What a sham!
They call that art?
Anyone with a true appreciation of art knows that should have been electrical tape.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Yes, it’s money laundering.
It would be cliche to say it is the banana. So, so obvious.
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*ROFL*...
A lot of truth to that. A friend sells high end art. On cruise ships, for tax avoidance reasons. Does well into the six figures. The customers? Almost exclusively Chinese.
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