A duck taped banana has sold for $6 million because that’s the society we live in. And no that is not a joke. We are literally talking about a banana and some duck tape.
Crypto investor Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for a banana duct-taped to a wall, highlighting the soaring values of crypto and viral art.
Sotheby’s last night auctioned off the infamous banana, titled “Comedian,” created by Italian artist and cultural prankster Maurizio Cattelan. After a heated battle with six others, Sun emerged as the winner, bidding online and paying in crypto.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/21/crypto-investor-justin-sun-banana-comedian-sotheby-auction.html
That is completely asinine and just goes to show you how detached from reality the wealthy are.
Do you know how many people you could feed through donations to food banks with $6 million dollars? That’s 120… ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY donations of $50,000 each to food banks. Considering how much food banks can squeeze out of their budgets, $50,000 could go a very long way.
And yet some guy has $6 million in crypto for doing absolutely nothing.
This is not art.
This is a mockery of art and society.
You can’t convince me otherwise or that any artist who duck tapes a banana to a wall and sells it for millions has good intentions or has a valuable artistic motivation. There is nothing to “get” and there is nothing but waste in this whole affair.
Art comes in diverse forms and can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. The Matrix movies are a good example of a piece of art that can be interpreted in different ways… you can see it as a trans allegory as it’s meant to be, or as a techno apocalypse action movies, or both. Art can mean different things.
And while you can say this is a comment about society… I don’t think it’s a genuine comment. Like I said you cannot convince me that this a piece of art made with good intentions. I would really like to be proven wrong.