{"id":56832,"date":"2025-07-25T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=56832"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:50:57","slug":"i-could-do-that-cattelans-banana-the-nature-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/07\/i-could-do-that-cattelans-banana-the-nature-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Could Do That\u201d: Cattelan&#8217;s Banana &#038; the Nature of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_56833\" style=\"width: 258px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banana_duct_taped_to_fridge_as_a_reminder_to_eat_less_meat.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56833\" class=\"wp-image-56833 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banana_duct_taped_to_fridge_as_a_reminder_to_eat_less_meat-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of a banana adhered to a white wall with silver duct tape.\" width=\"248\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banana_duct_taped_to_fridge_as_a_reminder_to_eat_less_meat-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banana_duct_taped_to_fridge_as_a_reminder_to_eat_less_meat.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A recreation of <em>The Comedian<\/em> by Maurizio Cattelan<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Recently, a museum visitor made headlines when they ate a $6 million work of art. <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Comedian<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> by Maurizio Cattelan is the official title of the piece of concept art most people simply know as \u201cthe thing of the banana stuck to the wall with silver duct tape\u201d. The work was on display at France\u2019s Centre Pompidou-Metz when, on July 12th, a visitor went up and ate the banana. The museum quickly replaced the banana, having a supply of the fruit on hand, as Cattelan\u2019s instructions included replacing the banana occasionally throughout its exhibition. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is far from the first time <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Comedian<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> has <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">been eaten<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. When the work was displayed for the first time at Art Basel Miami in 2019, a performance artist named David Datuna took the banana off the wall and ate it in front of fair-goers. In 2023, <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/05\/going-bananas-artwork-eaten-by-museum-visitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">a visitor to the Leeum Museum<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in Seoul, South Korea, did the same. And, perhaps most famously, the Chinese crypto figure Justin Sun bought a version of <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Comedian<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> for over $6 million at Sotheby\u2019s, New York, <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2024\/11\/29\/justin-sun-eats-catellan-banana-he-bought-for-62m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">before filming himself eating it<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Whenever <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Comedian<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> comes up in the news, all sorts of people will try to revive the horse they beat to death a long time ago in talking about the work\u2019s meaning and the surrounding controversy. What does this mean for art? If you like it, does that make you pretentious? What is Cattelan saying about the market? Is connoisseurship dead? These are good questions, ones worth asking. But to a degree, they overcomplicate things. According to the Pompidou-Metz\u2019s accompanying description, <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Comedian<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is a commentary on the \u201cabsurdity of financial speculation and the fragility of knowledge systems that underpin the art market\u201d. But to me, Cattelan&#8217;s<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Comedian<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is first and foremost a statement about the nature of art itself, and it serves as the perfect starting point for a conversation on the subject.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Among the many utterances that the casual museum-goer or gallery visitor might say that would make a connoisseur\u2019s blood boil is \u201cI don\u2019t get it.\u201d And that brings me to my preferred analogy about art appreciation: art is a two-way street. However, many view it as a one-way street, where an artist creates a work that conforms to seemingly objective aesthetic laws. An audience agrees or disagrees whether the work is indeed aesthetically pleasing, and that\u2019s the end of it. However, art is so much more than that. It\u2019s a two-way street, requiring some actual effort on the part of the viewer. If it were otherwise, a work of art would serve no more purpose than a nice pattern on wallpaper. Rather, a work of art is a text. It\u2019s a document that needs to be analyzed, dissected, and interpreted, all of which leads to a person formulating their own opinion about it. But some people don\u2019t see the need to put in that effort. They will stand in front of a painting by Rothko or Frankenthaler, dismissing it with an \u201cOkay, so what? I don\u2019t get it. I could do that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Nothing? It doesn\u2019t do anything for you? You don\u2019t want to do any work whatsoever? It doesn\u2019t make you feel anything? It doesn\u2019t evoke a memory or an image or any other sensory experience you may have had in the past? Dismissing a work of art by saying \u201cI could do that\u201d does a disservice to the artist. It reduces art to the physical, mechanical motions of creating something, completely divorcing art from the creative process that occurs in the mind. Anytime I hear someone say, \u201cI could do that\u201d, my standard response is always, \u201cOkay, but did you?\u201d That always confuses them, because they might have to admit that no, they didn\u2019t, and they likely never would have been able to create something like this had they not just seen it now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cattelan&#8217;s<em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Comedian<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is the perfect case study for these questions and discussions. The people who are the loudest in their dismissal, ridicule, and mockery are <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">actually<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> undermining their <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">own<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> point. Creating something aesthetically pleasing that serves as a strict recreation of nature is not the <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">be-all and end-all<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> of art. Art\u2019s purpose is to provoke a response. The purpose of art is to make you think. And it doesn\u2019t all have to be positive. A work of art doesn\u2019t have to make you feel good. Saying otherwise is the equivalent of disliking a book because it doesn\u2019t have a happy ending, or refusing to give a musician any credit because they make use of discord. The fact that you\u2019re feeling anything at all about it means that it\u2019s done its job. The British actor Simon Pegg recently shared how <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vIYr2eAlazo?si=DvSoOS9jMyEteYQf&amp;t=201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">he showed his teenage daughter the David Lynch film <\/span><\/a><em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vIYr2eAlazo?si=DvSoOS9jMyEteYQf&amp;t=201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Blue Velvet<\/span><\/a><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> for the first time, and that he was thrilled when she thoroughly disliked it. \u201cI was delighted that Tilly hated it because she talked about it nonstop that night and then the next day. And I said, sometimes entertainment is an overrated function of art.\u201d When Cattelan duct-taped a banana to a wall in Miami years ago, he was not necessarily doing anything new or innovative. He was following in the footsteps of Dada and pop art, reinforcing a century-old idea: it\u2019s art because we say it is. What more do we need than that?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a museum visitor made headlines when they ate a $6 million work of art. 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