‘Hungry’ South Korean scholar eats banana from museum artwork set up
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South Korean scholar ate a banana that was a part of a famend artwork set up by Italian artist Maruizio Cattelan as a result of he was “hungry”.
Noh Huyn-soo eliminated the fruit from a wall on the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul earlier than unpeeling and devouring it in entrance of shocked onlookers.
He then taped the peel again onto the wall. The museum later changed it with a contemporary banana.
The paintings, titled “Comedian”, consisted of a ripe banana duct-raped to a wall.
“The student told the museum he ate it because he was hungry,” a museum spokesperson instructed CNN.
“It happened suddenly, so no special action was taken. The artist (Cattelan) was informed of the incident but he didn’t have any reaction to it,” the spokesperson added.
The stunning incident was recorded by a pal of Noh in a video lasting over a minute.
Noh, an artwork scholar at Seoul National University, later instructed broadcaster KBS that he thought “damaging a work of modern art could also be [interpreted as] artwork” and that he got here up with the thought to reattach the peel as “a joke”.
He added: “I thought it would be interesting … isn’t it taped there to be eaten?”
The banana, a part of Cattalan’s Comedian set up, will get changed each two or three days.
Cattalan, a sculptor and efficiency artist primarily based in New York, reportedly replied “no problem” when knowledgeable in regards to the incident.
The first and second editions of the paintings bought for $120,000 (£95,640) after they have been on show at Miami Art Basel.