A multi-million dollar artwork by the comedian was eaten by a visitor
A visitor at the Pompidou Center Museum in Metz, France, ate a banana from the comedian’s artwork valued at several million dollars
The comedian artwork by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan is a banana taped to a wall with a piece of duct tape, valued at several million dollars
The local newspaper Le Républicain Lorrain quoted the Dutch visitor saying he ate the banana to see what a six-million-dollar banana tastes like. According to the newspaper, the museum decided not to file an official complaint and replaced the banana with another one
This is not the first time such an incident has happened to this artwork. Previously, in 2019, another artist ate the banana at the Art Basel Miami exhibition, and four years later, a student repeated the act at an exhibition in Seoul, the capital of South Korea
The comedian artwork will be on display at the Pompidou Center in Metz until February 2027, and the banana and tape are regularly replaced