Art student eats Maurizio Cattelan’s $160,000 banana at Korea’s Leeum museum

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Art student eats Maurizio Cattelan’s $160,000 banana at Korea’s Leeum museum
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It was the second time the banana was swiped off the wall and eaten; the banana had since been replaced. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SEOUL – Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s iconic art piece Comedian – a ripe banana duct-taped to a wall – on display at an art museum in Seoul, was eaten by a college student in an act he described as “artwork”.

At the exhibition showing some 38 works by Cattelan from the 1990s, the student took the banana from the piece, peeled it and ate it on site and then reattached only the banana peel back to the wall using the existing tape.

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