He proudly tells me via telephone that he is one of only two artists to have had shows at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery while still alive.
Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/AFP via Getty Imagesĭatuna is not just another prankster looking for a potassium fix. A third was up for bid to a museum at $150,000 before David Datuna hit the Miami Beach convention center. When the banana was taped to the wall, it quickly sold for $120,000, followed by another. He has had a long career pushing boundaries that include golden toilets (yes, the one recently stolen from Blenheim Palace was his), taxidermy, waxworks of John F Kennedy, the pope and Hitler, and large sculptures of extended middle fingers. While Cattelan certainly has an impish sense of humor, he isn’t someone who barged on to the scene with a bag of groceries. (In earlier conceptions, it was made of resin, before the sculptor realized “the banana is supposed to be a banana”.) Gallerist Emmanuel Perrotin explained that the angle of the tape and shape of the fruit were “carefully considered”.
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In its pre-masticated form, Cattelan claimed that he worked on Comedian for a year, before deciding on exactly how to let the banana manifest itself. The initial piece, Comedian by the Italian-born artist Maurizio Cattelan, and the subsequent performance/action, Hungry Artist by Georgian-born David Datuna, may seem too ludicrous to even parody, but all parties are making a good show of taking the matter seriously.
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