An installation and performance artist from Georgia David Datuna ate $120,000 (£91,000) banana at an art gallery in Miami Beach, Florida.
David visited the Art Basel Miami Beach on Saturday and ate a piece of artwork titled’ Comedian’ by renowned Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.
The artwork with a single banana duct-taped to a wall was worth $120,000 (£91,000).
David can be seen in a clip eating the banana saying: “Art performance… hungry artist. Thank you, very good.”
The artist left onlookers shocked.
However, the artist has now told the journalists that he is not sorry for eating $120,000 (£91,000) banana.
He said: “I decided in the morning. But I was not too hungry. So I spent another two hours to the Basel and I eat it. First of all, I very respect this artist. For me, he is one of the top artists in the world.”
“And I think this is the first one in art history when one artist eat concept for another artist. People ask me, you eat banana? Physically it was banana, but banana is just a tool. So usually I eat the concept of the art.”
“So it’s not like, again, vandalism. It was art performance from me. And absolutely, I’m not sorry. I call performance ‘Hungry Artist’. Yeah, because I was hungry and I just eat it. This is how artists talk with each other. We talk by art. This was his art and this was my performance.”
The artwork was made by Maurizio Cattelan and when he was asked about his artwork, he said: “Wherever I was travelling I had this banana on the wall. I couldn’t figure out how to finish it. In the end, one day I woke up and I said, ‘The banana is supposed to be a banana.'”
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