Maurizio Cattelan

What does the banana tell us? Is that what you're asking?

Well, let's try to run through all the puns we can possibly think of.

Well, let's try to run through all the puns we can possibly think of.

Well, let's try to run through all the puns we can possibly think of.

I don't want to slip up and miss any. Okay, so the piece is called Comedian and what it actually is is a real banana and, you know, a stretch of duct tape and it needs to be on a wall. But when you as the owner buy this piece, what you actually get are... A 14-page list of instructions that sort of doubles as a certificate of authenticity. 14 pages? Yeah.

I don't want to slip up and miss any. Okay, so the piece is called Comedian and what it actually is is a real banana and, you know, a stretch of duct tape and it needs to be on a wall. But when you as the owner buy this piece, what you actually get are... A 14-page list of instructions that sort of doubles as a certificate of authenticity. 14 pages? Yeah.

I don't want to slip up and miss any. Okay, so the piece is called Comedian and what it actually is is a real banana and, you know, a stretch of duct tape and it needs to be on a wall. But when you as the owner buy this piece, what you actually get are... A 14-page list of instructions that sort of doubles as a certificate of authenticity. 14 pages? Yeah.

Yeah, I think there are some illustrations. There's some illustrations. Okay, okay. And what the artist wants to illustrate are a few of the rules that accompany the work, which means you go out and you buy your own banana and your own duct tape. And you can create the work anywhere you want, but it needs to be on a white wall.

Yeah, I think there are some illustrations. There's some illustrations. Okay, okay. And what the artist wants to illustrate are a few of the rules that accompany the work, which means you go out and you buy your own banana and your own duct tape. And you can create the work anywhere you want, but it needs to be on a white wall.

Yeah, I think there are some illustrations. There's some illustrations. Okay, okay. And what the artist wants to illustrate are a few of the rules that accompany the work, which means you go out and you buy your own banana and your own duct tape. And you can create the work anywhere you want, but it needs to be on a white wall.

It needs to be a certain number of inches up from the floor, so roughly eye level. The banana needs to be sort of arcing to the right, not the left, and it needs to be vertical, so not like a smile. It needs to be upright, and then the duct tape has to be, you know, diagonal.

It needs to be a certain number of inches up from the floor, so roughly eye level. The banana needs to be sort of arcing to the right, not the left, and it needs to be vertical, so not like a smile. It needs to be upright, and then the duct tape has to be, you know, diagonal.

It needs to be a certain number of inches up from the floor, so roughly eye level. The banana needs to be sort of arcing to the right, not the left, and it needs to be vertical, so not like a smile. It needs to be upright, and then the duct tape has to be, you know, diagonal.

Yeah, after a few days, you take it down and you can put up another one. Yeah. It's ever evolving.

Yeah, after a few days, you take it down and you can put up another one. Yeah. It's ever evolving.

Yeah, after a few days, you take it down and you can put up another one. Yeah. It's ever evolving.

So absolutely nothing except that you could have done the same thing with, you know, a Campbell's can of tomato soup, but that doesn't make it a Warhol, right? So you don't have the version that the artist called art.

So absolutely nothing except that you could have done the same thing with, you know, a Campbell's can of tomato soup, but that doesn't make it a Warhol, right? So you don't have the version that the artist called art.

So absolutely nothing except that you could have done the same thing with, you know, a Campbell's can of tomato soup, but that doesn't make it a Warhol, right? So you don't have the version that the artist called art.

he's noticing that this sort of never-ending stream of art fairs just keeps getting more and more populated with big, splashy, abstract painting, figurative painting. And he starts to get annoyed that the entire art world is just sort of glomming onto all these splashy, pretty paintings. And where's the bite, right? Where's the provocation? And so he comes out of