'It is something deeper': David Datuna on why he ate the $120,000 banana

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The artist who ate Maurizio Cattelan’s work at Art Basel Miami talks about the concept behind his audacious stunt

Art Basel Miami highlights the best new work from the world’s contemporary artists, many of whom toil away at their craft, painstakingly, hoping to create something new and innovative under the sun. But naturally all anyone can talk about is the guy who taped a $120,000 banana to the wall and the other guy who ate it.

 

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This is not art, but BS philosophy. Goya wrote centuries ago 'The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters'. It is what we have -- one fartist tapes banana to a wall for which a few fartlovers pay obscene amounts of money and then another fartist eats that banana. Don't write about BS.

Publicity stunt

It's ...bananal.......

This is not news. Nor is it art. Stories as dumb as this don’t deserve attention.

Birds of a feather mock together ..

He could've actually made a difference in the world with that money.

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