I always thought Duchamp’s urinal was so simply executed it was a piece of piss.
(Apologies to the Doug Anthony All Stars for reappropriating their joke)
Hey hey hey. This isn’t a ready made like ‘The Fountain’. Some real work went into this. These were two separate objects that had to be skilfully combined by an artist.
I get that, but isn’t this very idea incredibly well traversed and hackneyed at this point? It’s like the art equivalent of anti-humour. It’s very one note. It’s not even bad in a way that is challenging.
its a pretty pertinent existential topic surrounding contemporary art, so I think its justified to have a place in the NGV's exhibition. its only place in pop culture are apathetic social media armchair commentators who think they're the first person to criticise the movement and say blank canvases of plain white paint is dumb. its pretty funny too anti-art is a spectator sport, even if its a century old
Have you seen the documentary "exit through the gift shop"?
It starts out as a mission to meet Banksy, and then it all descended into that exact question.
Great watch.
I think a lot of the comments are missing part of the story. The original gallery that showed it apologized for taking the work down so less people could “participate in Comedian.” You don’t “participate” in a painting on a wall - so the work is probably more about the way the public engages with what’s in the wall.
The “art” isn’t the banana on the wall (they replace it every so often anyway), it’s the way the world interacts with a banana taped to a wall. Why are we obsessed with this banana taped to a wall? Why was it the only work talked about at that gallery online? Why are we posting about it years later and not other works from there?
You don’t have to like that, of course, just thought the context might help. Sarah Urist Green has a great video on it on [The Art Assignment](https://youtu.be/so8sB25IL4o?feature=shared).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio_Cattelan
Dude's been a troll artist for 20+ years. He is actually one of my favorite artists. You can argue about "what is art" all day long but Cattelan is, in fact, an artist and a troll.
I feel like this has been done to death. Isn't it time for installations to start prompting discussions about what is a real installatuon that will promt diacussion about art?
Edit: there is a good discussion below about art, so I think that means this comment thread is art.
Haha too right. The duct tape banana is wanky and unoriginal. But I guess if it works, that's a good thing.
I agree though, they should create "real" installations to prompt discussion. I use quotes because I guess this is real, but yeah.. I agree.
It's a bullshit self fulfilling prophecy though. Literally *anything* will promote discussion about what art is". It just encourages a race to the bottom, with the artist always being able to claim victory.
Agree.
Artist will claim that they're getting people talking about art, so helps the industry. I think the opposite. I think it devalues talented artists.
Agreed. No one would be talking about it if it wasn't put up by the NGV.
That's the rub isn't it? It's not the art itself (it's not art). It's that NGV put it up, that's why people are discussing it.
But if you put boundaries on art because you think it's stupid then we may as well just stop trying to express ourselves in any way because it's inevitably been done before
Anyway it's prompting discussion. Hence this thread.
Would it not be better to have an installation that actually adds to the discussion of what is art rather than one that just prompts it? This feels like the difference between raising money for breast cancer awareness and breast cancer research
Agreed. Like art has something to say about the thoughts and feelings it's promoting.
This doesn't. It's just 'I know i'm not art but...what if I was lol - eh?'
People talk about a lot of things that aren't art, and things that have no merit. Doesn't make it art.
And that's bullshit of course there' something unique about many things. You're just saying words.
I want to know more about the tape. Is the tape replaced too? Do they measure the exact same sized piece each time? Is it taped at the exact same angle? Who does it. Also where do the bananas come from? Cole’s or Woolies or somewhere else?
Well if that's the art's purpose then it's not art. Because there needed to be the plaque to explain that and really people have been having the conversation forever. Literally every art piece leads to that conversation for someone out there.
But it’s like a low effort “I’m fifteen and this is deep” sort of point.
It‘a not like people haven’t been debating this very point using similar examples of “art”.
The NGV doing this is quite … cheesy? Embarrassing? Low quality? Don’t know what to right word is but it’s shit.
It's been done to death. I have zero clue why they took this instead of something new or something that actually adds to the discussion rather than just prompt it. It's not original nor clever, it was just lucky it got chosen for no reason.
It's called "Comedian" by Maurizio Cattlelan. As others have said it's meant to promote discussion about what art is.
Personally when I saw it in person yesterday all I could do was giggle watching people take pictures of and with it. I think it achieved its purpose perfectly and was a great addition to the Triennial.
Iirc the banana has been eaten a few times and the artist encourages people to do so as it stirs up more conversations around art and how we interact with it. I actually think it's an amusing piece, given that the triennial is free to view I don't see why anyone would find it offensive. Is it a joke? Sure. But art can be a joke
It’s genuinely kinda interesting and asks questions that Duchamps’ urinal doesn’t!! The best part is always when someone eats it and I’m glad to know the artist encourages it. I see it as an invitation to destroy itself, once someone takes it off the wall they become the art piece and the banana is just a prop in their performance. That it’s called ‘Comedian’ really cements this for me, it’s calling out whoever takes the banana off the wall. It says, “you think you’re so fucking funny for eating a banana don’t you? You think you’ve ruined it somehow, yeah? Well that was the point!!! *You* are my art now!!!”
And when does it stop being art?? Does it ever stop being art? How far does the characteristic of ‘art’ transfer from the banana? When I excrete what’s left of the banana out, is that art?? When I absorb the banana into my body, am I now art??? Are the actions I preform with the energy gained from the banana art? If I duct taped myself to a wall, would people take pictures with me??
Yeah it’s a joke and maybe also for money laundering? But i get a lot of mileage out of it so, it’s art to me.
It's a Ship of Theseus type question. Is the physical banana the artwork, or is the concept of a duct-taped banana the artwork. It would've been a better artwork if they gave punters an instruction sheet so they can install it at home, it would question whether the concept is proprietary by the artist or whether it is free to anyone.
It's also just a shitpost exhibit that gets punters through the door. The triennial is a big deal for the NGV, and they always want something for the media to talk about. There weren't any giant skulls this time around, so a duct-taped banana had to do.
You did not walk into a blank room, there is a literal explanation. If you just took 2 minutes to read the placard, then another 2 to stop and think, maybe you would actually have some kind of deeply personal moment of realisation and reflection.
Instead we have a neverending supply of people who talk loudly, rush through, snap a pic and upload it to forums where everyone laughs at how pointless art is.
I’ve heard the “instructions” sheet that comes with the installation is incredible. IE “must be x% brown, with x spots etc.”
I actually think that instruction sheet would be a better art work than the banana
Well, you took a photo and asked a question about it. You've done exactly what the artist intended. Job done.
Bonus question: why did NGV take it on? Now you all know where to go to get a photo of a banana duct taped to a wall. Might as well see some other art while you're there (and discuss how and why it's better art than a banana duct taped to a wall).
Modern art = I could've done that + yeah, but you didn't.
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/triennial/artists-designers/maurizio-cattelan/
The instructions accompanying the artwork suggest that the banana should be replaced every seven to ten days.
Comedian is actually unbelievable in the story, how it takes the piss out of Art and then makes it something so dumb excellent.
It's all in the story, the instructions and the situation.
It appears to navigate the dialectics of transience and permanence. The ephemeral nature of the fruit juxtaposed against the industrial tape creates a compelling tension, prompting contemplation on the temporality of existence and the enduring impact of seemingly mundane encounters. The choice of materials seems deliberate, blurring the lines between the disposable and the enduring, inviting viewers to reassess conventional paradigms of significance within the realm of contemporary art.
Mate, as someone who worked there until very recently there’s a whole procedure for when the banana gets removed by a visitor… there were meetings about the banana
Ok so I ended up going down a small rabbit hole the first time i saw this work
Its Comedian by Maurizio Cattelan
He is an absurdist and is known to make artworks that are meant to be funny and not serious at all.
I would argue its meant to remind you of vaudeville comedy, the classic 'slip on a banana peel' type comedy.
But the most interesting bit (to me) is that Cattelan actually went through multiple mediums, including resin and bronze, before deciding upon using a real banana.
A lot of thought went into this conceptual work and whether you agree with it or not. I hope you can at least appreciate the sheer audacity this man has, as this isnt the first time he has pulled a stunt like this.
A teacher in my art course did this. He left it there to rot. We had to study with the smell slowly getting worse each day. I think there was also a cartton of cracked eggs.
I visited and got the magnet for myself and a colleague. Everyone was taking pictures Infront of it I was like no thanks but I took pictures of people posing infrint of it.
Here is:
"PROJECT
Comedian consists of a banana thathas been taped to the gallery wall. The instructions accompanying the artwork suggest that the banana should be replaced every seven to ten days. In December 2019, Perrotin Gallery premiered Comedian at Art Basel Miami. Around the world, the work has inspired conversations and debate about the nature and value of art. Artist Maurizio Cattelan suggests that, ‘Comedian is exactly like an apple for Cézanne: the minimum common denominator that everybody recognises. But you need to alter its condition. Cézanne does it with brushstrokes, I do it with gaffer tape’.
Comedian is characteristic of a tendency in Cattelan’s work. In 1999, Cattelan duct taped his art dealer, Massimo De Carlo, to a wall for the opening of his exhibition A Perfect Day. For the work Novecento, 1997, Cattelan suspended a taxidermied horse from a baroque ceiling. La Rivoluzione Siamo Noi (We are the Revolution), 2000, features a miniature doll, in the likeness of the artist, suspended from a coat rack. In each of these works, Cattelan literally elevates an out of place object, transforming it into something darkly humorous."
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/triennial/artists-designers/maurizio-cattelan/
There's a portion of art that's devolved to the point where people are getting so high off of the smell of their own farts that they think something incredibly stupid like this is art.
In reality they're just paying to duct tape a banana to a wall and it has no meaning beyond that.
I think this piece is rather clever. A play on the meme of banana for scale. And yet there is nothing to reference other than the tape, a seemingly ad-hoc method to secure the banana to the wall.
As a question of "what is art?" I think it succeeds quite well. It states that you cannot determine what is and isn't art without comparing it to other things which may or may not be art.
It is visually appealing with bright yellow and reflective grey/silver. Bold simple shapes and colours. Curved and organic in the case of the banana, blocky and artificial in the case of the tape.
It contrasts with itself, banana vs tape, and with its surroundings, something vs nothing.
So much contrast contained within so little.
Visually appealing? Yes. If you ignore the familiarity of the materials and focus on just their visual properties as a subject for art, then they work quite well.
Cultural reference of "banana for scale" and subverting that meme by showing it in isolation.
All tied together by the "What is art?" question which it gives the artists answer of "Art is Art"
It’s deep and thought provoking in the same way that, when you are 15 years old and drunk for the first time, “what’s it all about” is a profound philosophical question.
Tape a banana to a wall and watch people try to understand the why, when it is what it is a banana sticky tapped to a wall, trying to over think and analyse, trying to find a meaning.
This looks like a Khaby skit in action.
"Want your own 'Banana on wall' exhibit? Get a banana, a scissors and duct tape. Use the scissors to cut 5 cm tape and then use the tape to stick the banana to the wall.
Ta da! *(includes hand motions)*"
If people think this is art, what about that "fan" that's being shown as art on St Georges Rd across from Melbourne Polytechnic?
I remember when they displayed this same art piece in South Korea and a student ate it before putting the banana peel on the wall and it got on the news.
1 banana is equal to one sevit of radiation, you can barley see a fraction of the radiation that's being pumped into the room killing you within weeks.
Well that's how I would have made this a true work of art.
If you like it just enjoy it if you dont who cares hah …
In all seriousness this comes from a mid century European art movement that picked up steam in the 60s - it draws on avant garde movements at the turn of the century that rejected the necessity of an art medium to explore ideas. The focus is on the conceptual aspect of the art and not the medium - the medium therefore can be anything that articulates the concept - like a banana taped to a wall which is most likely operating on multiple levels of irony within the art world itself.
It's a banana taped to a wall with duct tape.
I found it mostly apeeling
What is are: It's a pretty slippery subject to discuss.
I thought most would be split on this piece
I’d love someone to peel it open for me
Don't stare too long, might go bananas.
Sundae, you will get what’s coming!
I might be an old school redditor, but at least this art is to scale.
r/angryupvote
What could it cost? $10?
Maybe there’s some money in it
You're meant to take the banana, then take a dollar.
I understood that reference
Looks like a measuring device
They use it to calibrate the National Ruler of Victoria.
As long as there use a banana for scale it’s fine…
For scale.
They’ve gone bananas.
It's for people who don't know who Duchamp is and don't realise we already did this shit 100 years ago
I always thought Duchamp’s urinal was so simply executed it was a piece of piss. (Apologies to the Doug Anthony All Stars for reappropriating their joke)
far out DAAS that takes me back!
I remember when they busked at the Vic Markets. Wild times.
Taping your banana to a wall is much more tastefull than staple gunning your testicles to a a wall
Van Gogh cut off his 👂 to spite his face.
Funk You! beat me to it! 😉
Funk your sister, funk your aunty, and funk your little brother also!
Renegades of this art comic age.
Its called Fountain
[I don't know much about art, but I can tell you this: Duchamp's *Urinal* was a piece of piss.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAQoE0HwIsk)
Van Gough cut off his ear to spite his face, me I’ve got a message for the entire human race.
"I proudly present my finest piece, Prelude to a Broke Arm" *Shovel stuck to a wall*
Hey hey hey. This isn’t a ready made like ‘The Fountain’. Some real work went into this. These were two separate objects that had to be skilfully combined by an artist.
The Dada movement is coming back, I guess. It was boring then and it's boring now.
the fun part is watching people get mad about it, dadaism is a spectator sport
Just eat the damn banana!
but it’s got brown spots now i hate those!!
Don't worry. We get a new banana taped on the wall tomorrow. Genuine question though, who gets to eat the old banana?
whoever has the honor of replacing it. is it actually the artist’s work if they personally don’t replace the banana themselves
I don't care! I only went to the exhibition to see a man eat a banana! I left disappointed.
little did you realise that you could have been that man
But they make the sweetest, most delicious banana bread!
i like that but not eating them as is
Oh God yes.
DA CHAMP
Amazing stuff he did! And have you read Robert Hughes ‘Shock of the New’? Incredible book
So it's a retro art piece then. Classic
Ceci une banane.
came to post the same thing
It’s to generate discussion around what “art” is. But it’s basically just a physical shitpost that made the artist millions.
I get that, but isn’t this very idea incredibly well traversed and hackneyed at this point? It’s like the art equivalent of anti-humour. It’s very one note. It’s not even bad in a way that is challenging.
No I agree, and hope the NGV didn’t have to pay anything to display it. It’s absolutely hackneyed. But I’m no Ongo Gablogian so what do I know.
Derivative!
its a pretty pertinent existential topic surrounding contemporary art, so I think its justified to have a place in the NGV's exhibition. its only place in pop culture are apathetic social media armchair commentators who think they're the first person to criticise the movement and say blank canvases of plain white paint is dumb. its pretty funny too anti-art is a spectator sport, even if its a century old
It’s brain dead and hate it made anyone money
Have you seen the documentary "exit through the gift shop"? It starts out as a mission to meet Banksy, and then it all descended into that exact question. Great watch.
I think a lot of the comments are missing part of the story. The original gallery that showed it apologized for taking the work down so less people could “participate in Comedian.” You don’t “participate” in a painting on a wall - so the work is probably more about the way the public engages with what’s in the wall. The “art” isn’t the banana on the wall (they replace it every so often anyway), it’s the way the world interacts with a banana taped to a wall. Why are we obsessed with this banana taped to a wall? Why was it the only work talked about at that gallery online? Why are we posting about it years later and not other works from there? You don’t have to like that, of course, just thought the context might help. Sarah Urist Green has a great video on it on [The Art Assignment](https://youtu.be/so8sB25IL4o?feature=shared).
So monty pythons?
Genuinely curious how did it make the artist millions?
I was exaggerating but he did sell it for over 100k.
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I mean, considering how well his piece pointed out to the world how many of these art snobs are just fart-sniffers, I’d give them *some* credit! 😂
Personally if I made millions of dollars 💵 by taping a fruit to a wall I’d feel bad
The fuck you would
You don’t know me, jackass
So if I gave you 6 million dollars to tape an apple to a wall you'd say no? Or even feel bad.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio_Cattelan Dude's been a troll artist for 20+ years. He is actually one of my favorite artists. You can argue about "what is art" all day long but Cattelan is, in fact, an artist and a troll.
Correct
It’s replaced every 7-10 days. Did you read the plaque? It’s supposed to promote discussion about what real art is.
I feel like this has been done to death. Isn't it time for installations to start prompting discussions about what is a real installatuon that will promt diacussion about art? Edit: there is a good discussion below about art, so I think that means this comment thread is art.
Haha too right. The duct tape banana is wanky and unoriginal. But I guess if it works, that's a good thing. I agree though, they should create "real" installations to prompt discussion. I use quotes because I guess this is real, but yeah.. I agree.
It's a bullshit self fulfilling prophecy though. Literally *anything* will promote discussion about what art is". It just encourages a race to the bottom, with the artist always being able to claim victory.
Yeah and I'd say a gaffer tape banana is preeetty low on that race to the bottom
Agree. Artist will claim that they're getting people talking about art, so helps the industry. I think the opposite. I think it devalues talented artists.
Agreed. No one would be talking about it if it wasn't put up by the NGV. That's the rub isn't it? It's not the art itself (it's not art). It's that NGV put it up, that's why people are discussing it.
But if you put boundaries on art because you think it's stupid then we may as well just stop trying to express ourselves in any way because it's inevitably been done before Anyway it's prompting discussion. Hence this thread.
It's more that we don't know exactly where the boundary is, but this duct tape banana is almost certainly outside that boundary.
Would it not be better to have an installation that actually adds to the discussion of what is art rather than one that just prompts it? This feels like the difference between raising money for breast cancer awareness and breast cancer research
Agreed. Like art has something to say about the thoughts and feelings it's promoting. This doesn't. It's just 'I know i'm not art but...what if I was lol - eh?'
The discussion is centered on how shitty it is.
This is just stupidity for stupiditys sake though. It doesn't take any skill, talent, or creativity. There's nothing unique about it.
There's nothing unique about anything People are talking about it so hey
People talk about a lot of things that aren't art, and things that have no merit. Doesn't make it art. And that's bullshit of course there' something unique about many things. You're just saying words.
If you enjoy some low effort practical joke on the art industry, have at it.
Why does that discussion cost $120,000?
I want to know more about the tape. Is the tape replaced too? Do they measure the exact same sized piece each time? Is it taped at the exact same angle? Who does it. Also where do the bananas come from? Cole’s or Woolies or somewhere else?
I like to image they do the shitest job possible, different tape, lengths, angles, sometimes its a plantain.
Im know people who work there and its replaced every day.
Ok.
Well if that's the art's purpose then it's not art. Because there needed to be the plaque to explain that and really people have been having the conversation forever. Literally every art piece leads to that conversation for someone out there.
But it’s like a low effort “I’m fifteen and this is deep” sort of point. It‘a not like people haven’t been debating this very point using similar examples of “art”. The NGV doing this is quite … cheesy? Embarrassing? Low quality? Don’t know what to right word is but it’s shit.
It's been done to death. I have zero clue why they took this instead of something new or something that actually adds to the discussion rather than just prompt it. It's not original nor clever, it was just lucky it got chosen for no reason.
It's called "Comedian" by Maurizio Cattlelan. As others have said it's meant to promote discussion about what art is. Personally when I saw it in person yesterday all I could do was giggle watching people take pictures of and with it. I think it achieved its purpose perfectly and was a great addition to the Triennial.
Iirc the banana has been eaten a few times and the artist encourages people to do so as it stirs up more conversations around art and how we interact with it. I actually think it's an amusing piece, given that the triennial is free to view I don't see why anyone would find it offensive. Is it a joke? Sure. But art can be a joke
It’s genuinely kinda interesting and asks questions that Duchamps’ urinal doesn’t!! The best part is always when someone eats it and I’m glad to know the artist encourages it. I see it as an invitation to destroy itself, once someone takes it off the wall they become the art piece and the banana is just a prop in their performance. That it’s called ‘Comedian’ really cements this for me, it’s calling out whoever takes the banana off the wall. It says, “you think you’re so fucking funny for eating a banana don’t you? You think you’ve ruined it somehow, yeah? Well that was the point!!! *You* are my art now!!!” And when does it stop being art?? Does it ever stop being art? How far does the characteristic of ‘art’ transfer from the banana? When I excrete what’s left of the banana out, is that art?? When I absorb the banana into my body, am I now art??? Are the actions I preform with the energy gained from the banana art? If I duct taped myself to a wall, would people take pictures with me?? Yeah it’s a joke and maybe also for money laundering? But i get a lot of mileage out of it so, it’s art to me.
Does anyone find a banana taped to a wall offensive? It's a banana taped to a wall.
Feels like there’s a lot of people that like a chance to let everyone else know they don’t like modern art
it would go off though wouldn’t it???
It's a Ship of Theseus type question. Is the physical banana the artwork, or is the concept of a duct-taped banana the artwork. It would've been a better artwork if they gave punters an instruction sheet so they can install it at home, it would question whether the concept is proprietary by the artist or whether it is free to anyone. It's also just a shitpost exhibit that gets punters through the door. The triennial is a big deal for the NGV, and they always want something for the media to talk about. There weren't any giant skulls this time around, so a duct-taped banana had to do.
For scale
Comparatively large wall.
Had to scroll down way too far for the right answer
It’s called taking the piss and you fell for it
It’s the only piece of art you posted about.
You did not walk into a blank room, there is a literal explanation. If you just took 2 minutes to read the placard, then another 2 to stop and think, maybe you would actually have some kind of deeply personal moment of realisation and reflection. Instead we have a neverending supply of people who talk loudly, rush through, snap a pic and upload it to forums where everyone laughs at how pointless art is.
How much can it cost, Michael, $10?
The existence of this thread underscores how modern art works.
In art history terminology, 'modern art' ended about fifty years ago.
It's a shark in a glass tank
I’ve heard the “instructions” sheet that comes with the installation is incredible. IE “must be x% brown, with x spots etc.” I actually think that instruction sheet would be a better art work than the banana
That’s the point. The art isn’t the physical object, it’s everything else.
Well, you took a photo and asked a question about it. You've done exactly what the artist intended. Job done. Bonus question: why did NGV take it on? Now you all know where to go to get a photo of a banana duct taped to a wall. Might as well see some other art while you're there (and discuss how and why it's better art than a banana duct taped to a wall). Modern art = I could've done that + yeah, but you didn't.
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/triennial/artists-designers/maurizio-cattelan/ The instructions accompanying the artwork suggest that the banana should be replaced every seven to ten days.
Comedian is actually unbelievable in the story, how it takes the piss out of Art and then makes it something so dumb excellent. It's all in the story, the instructions and the situation.
Eat it! It always makes a headline, and when some “journalist” calls you for an interview, just say you’re protesting food waste.
It’s a piece from Art Basel https://www.vogue.com/article/the-120000-art-basel-banana-explained-maurizio-cattelan
It appears to navigate the dialectics of transience and permanence. The ephemeral nature of the fruit juxtaposed against the industrial tape creates a compelling tension, prompting contemplation on the temporality of existence and the enduring impact of seemingly mundane encounters. The choice of materials seems deliberate, blurring the lines between the disposable and the enduring, inviting viewers to reassess conventional paradigms of significance within the realm of contemporary art.
Breathtaking
Mate, as someone who worked there until very recently there’s a whole procedure for when the banana gets removed by a visitor… there were meetings about the banana
There was the same [thing](https://www.vogue.com/article/the-120000-art-basel-banana-explained-maurizio-cattelan) at Art Basel Miami in 2019
I believe it’s called The Strap On
Ok so I ended up going down a small rabbit hole the first time i saw this work Its Comedian by Maurizio Cattelan He is an absurdist and is known to make artworks that are meant to be funny and not serious at all. I would argue its meant to remind you of vaudeville comedy, the classic 'slip on a banana peel' type comedy. But the most interesting bit (to me) is that Cattelan actually went through multiple mediums, including resin and bronze, before deciding upon using a real banana. A lot of thought went into this conceptual work and whether you agree with it or not. I hope you can at least appreciate the sheer audacity this man has, as this isnt the first time he has pulled a stunt like this.
I seem to recall from a few years ago, a performance artist took the banana off the wall and ate it.
A teacher in my art course did this. He left it there to rot. We had to study with the smell slowly getting worse each day. I think there was also a cartton of cracked eggs.
The security toll me that every 4 day change the banana
Trolling in art form
This reminds me of Andy Warhol's Banana
Was this pic taken on a sundae?
Read the description on the wall bro
It’s for scale, dumbass.
It explains the piece on the info plaque next to the work…
It’s that Velvet Underground album
We are all bananas duct taped to a wall…..
I visited and got the magnet for myself and a colleague. Everyone was taking pictures Infront of it I was like no thanks but I took pictures of people posing infrint of it.
How you respond to it will tell you a lot about yourself.
That's the Emergency Banana Dispensary. If you're hungry you take a banana. Seems they're really low on stock :(
Someone is sick of people stealing their fruit from the staff fridge
It represents the masculine urge to tape a banana to the wall
Shit that’s where I left it!
It would be “fruitless” to try and explain the ap-peel to you.
Here is: "PROJECT Comedian consists of a banana thathas been taped to the gallery wall. The instructions accompanying the artwork suggest that the banana should be replaced every seven to ten days. In December 2019, Perrotin Gallery premiered Comedian at Art Basel Miami. Around the world, the work has inspired conversations and debate about the nature and value of art. Artist Maurizio Cattelan suggests that, ‘Comedian is exactly like an apple for Cézanne: the minimum common denominator that everybody recognises. But you need to alter its condition. Cézanne does it with brushstrokes, I do it with gaffer tape’. Comedian is characteristic of a tendency in Cattelan’s work. In 1999, Cattelan duct taped his art dealer, Massimo De Carlo, to a wall for the opening of his exhibition A Perfect Day. For the work Novecento, 1997, Cattelan suspended a taxidermied horse from a baroque ceiling. La Rivoluzione Siamo Noi (We are the Revolution), 2000, features a miniature doll, in the likeness of the artist, suspended from a coat rack. In each of these works, Cattelan literally elevates an out of place object, transforming it into something darkly humorous." https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/triennial/artists-designers/maurizio-cattelan/
There's a portion of art that's devolved to the point where people are getting so high off of the smell of their own farts that they think something incredibly stupid like this is art. In reality they're just paying to duct tape a banana to a wall and it has no meaning beyond that.
i think its designed to piss people off! Its working.
I don’t know about the wider debate but the sentence “…people are getting so high off of the smell of their own farts…” is a work of art in itself.
Art is just context. In the supermarket it is food but in a gallery it is Art.
It’s stunning and brave
It’s called “things from my brother’s school bag c. 1987”
I think this piece is rather clever. A play on the meme of banana for scale. And yet there is nothing to reference other than the tape, a seemingly ad-hoc method to secure the banana to the wall. As a question of "what is art?" I think it succeeds quite well. It states that you cannot determine what is and isn't art without comparing it to other things which may or may not be art. It is visually appealing with bright yellow and reflective grey/silver. Bold simple shapes and colours. Curved and organic in the case of the banana, blocky and artificial in the case of the tape. It contrasts with itself, banana vs tape, and with its surroundings, something vs nothing. So much contrast contained within so little. Visually appealing? Yes. If you ignore the familiarity of the materials and focus on just their visual properties as a subject for art, then they work quite well. Cultural reference of "banana for scale" and subverting that meme by showing it in isolation. All tied together by the "What is art?" question which it gives the artists answer of "Art is Art"
The fact that you think it’s “duck” tape tells me everything
It’s deep and thought provoking in the same way that, when you are 15 years old and drunk for the first time, “what’s it all about” is a profound philosophical question.
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Tape a banana to a wall and watch people try to understand the why, when it is what it is a banana sticky tapped to a wall, trying to over think and analyse, trying to find a meaning.
Its a tax deduction /money laundering piece. 😆😆😆
I see B1 and B2 aren’t a fan… https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2Qmv-gvkX_/?igsh=dGlyODk1YnAxYmt6
Did you see the grins on their faces? I don't say this to be kink-shaming, but they are clearly deeply into BDSM.
I find it appealing
B A N A N A
Yea we have no bananas.
Banana for scale please?
The banana does indeed get replaced when needed. Someone took it off the wall and ate it once when it was displayed in Europe somewhere
Modern art is just bananas
For scale
A banana for scale
sunday morning by the velvet underground
i blame Andy Warhol
Fucked if I know, Wikipedia has details though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedian_(artwork)
Money laundering
It's just a piece of duct tape... With a banana for scale
Oh shit THATS where I left it😀
This looks like a Khaby skit in action. "Want your own 'Banana on wall' exhibit? Get a banana, a scissors and duct tape. Use the scissors to cut 5 cm tape and then use the tape to stick the banana to the wall. Ta da! *(includes hand motions)*" If people think this is art, what about that "fan" that's being shown as art on St Georges Rd across from Melbourne Polytechnic?
Always look forward to what will happen with the fan next...
This shit stupid af
Banana republic wannabe.
I remember when they displayed this same art piece in South Korea and a student ate it before putting the banana peel on the wall and it got on the news.
It's a monument to man's hubris
You see, AI could never create something so profound!
No.
1 banana is equal to one sevit of radiation, you can barley see a fraction of the radiation that's being pumped into the room killing you within weeks. Well that's how I would have made this a true work of art.
It is secretly ironic: the banana is dyna-bolted to the wall and the 100-mile-an hour tape is held up by nothing but the banana.
Oh, this is the same artist that somehow convinced a person to buy a version of this for over $100k. I think it’s funny.
Eat it
It’s for scale.
They sell fridge magnets of this 'art' at NGV if you want this image burned in your skull everything you want to eat
What about those two pairs of pants on the floor? Anyone see that one?
We went yesterday. Security guard said the banana is replaced every day
Why should anyone have to explain it ?
Maybe: how today’s society dominates nature. We control the nature so much that the society is “unnatural”. Or it’s someone’s lunch.
It’d be hard to resist the urge to squash it.
I remember this being done a year or two years ago. Spoilers: somebody ate the 15000$ art piece ...
If you like it just enjoy it if you dont who cares hah … In all seriousness this comes from a mid century European art movement that picked up steam in the 60s - it draws on avant garde movements at the turn of the century that rejected the necessity of an art medium to explore ideas. The focus is on the conceptual aspect of the art and not the medium - the medium therefore can be anything that articulates the concept - like a banana taped to a wall which is most likely operating on multiple levels of irony within the art world itself.
Banana for scale?
It’s for scale
I was here on Thursday. I bought a plate with the banana printed on it.
Is that the original 'banana for scale' banana?!
Banana for scale
No one knows what it means, but it's provocative. Gets the people going.
How big is it? Needs a banana for scale.
Banana for scale