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The Pompidou-Metz museum reported to French police the theft of a banana from Cattelan’s multimillion-dollar artwork 'Comedian'. The fruit, taped to a wall as the provocative work’s centrepiece, was found missing by a guard on May 30.
Photo: AFP A museum in eastern France on Sunday reported to police the theft of a banana that forms a core part of a multimillion-dollar artwork by Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan. The Pompidou-Metz museum, which is a branch of the famous Pompidou Centre in Paris, said in a statement it had lodged a criminal complaint for theft against persons unknown.
It is not the first time damage has been dealt to the conceptual artwork, whose perishable banana centrepiece is replaced every three days to keep it contemporary. In July last year, a visitor to the museum ate the fruit. But guards quickly intervened and stuck up a replacement banana. Cattelan said at the time he was disappointed the hungry visitor had consumed only the banana and not the tape as well.
The museum did not take legal action in that instance. This time, though, it decided to make its criminal complaint because the perpetrator was unidentified, and therefore"there is no possibility of dialogue". It also said that"this is the second time this has happened" and it felt it was an issue of respect for the artwork.
Cattelan's edible creation, which aims to question the notion of art and its value, has sparked controversy ever since it made its debut at the 2019 Art Basel show in Miami Beach with an asking price of US$120,000 . Chinese-born crypto founder Justin Sun in 2024 forked out US$5.2mil for one iteration of the work, then days later ate it in front of cameras in Hong Kong.
A British court in March found two men guilty of stealing it during an exhibition in 2020 in Britain, from an 18th-century stately home that was the birthplace of wartime prime minister Winston Churchill. London-based artist holds Malaysia as home, an anchor of memory and returnBamboo Playhouse transformed into 'dream maze' at Perdana Botanical GardenMadani leaders as book influencers, a children’s festival among PBAKL highlightsWeekend for the arts: Wayang Kulit: Memory & Tomorrow, Jeff Mills in KL, 'Berapa Sekilo? ' show
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