In 2024, Maurizio Cattelan’s conceptual artwork ‘Comedian’ changed hands for 6.2 million dollars. Before that, it had already sold for the absurd amount of 108,000 dollars.
The concept of a banana taped to a wall with duct tape has now effectively become an exclusive ownership claim by a buyer who, in my opinion understandably, remains anonymous. Hanging a banana this way in your own living room would be considered a copy.
So what is the artistic status of a painting of a banana taped to a wall? And... is it now also worth sixty times more than before?
