By Shirley Farmer 
A South Korean student eating a banana that was part of an artwork created by Italian Maurizio Cattelan. When asked why he ate the offered piece of fruit, the young man replied that he was “hungry”.
Noh Huyn-soo is the name of the student who decided to eat the banana taped to the wall at the Yeom Museum of Art in Seoul.
However, this wasn’t just a banana: the fruit was part of the unusual art installation called “Comedy” and is worth $120,000 (about 109,300 euros).
The act of the South Korean was recorded on video by a friend and in the recording Noh Huyen Soo can be seen removing the tape that held the banana and peeling and eating the piece of fruit, before returning sticking the bark to it. The same place.
“Aren’t you stuck there to be eaten?”
According to The Korea Herald, Quoted from the Guardianthe young man justified the act by saying he was “hungry” after he had not had breakfast.
The British newspaper also reported that the young man reported this to the Korean station KBS It can harm a work of modern art, too [interpretado como] Masterpiece” and who put the bark on the wall in the form of a “joke”.
He added that he believes “It will be interesting.” eat bananas
“Isn’t she stuck there to be eaten?” Noh Huyen Soo asked.
The bananas that make up the art installation are replaced every two or three days, alleviating the fact that a student has damaged a work of art.
Cattelan, the artist responsible for this creation, was aware of this situation and only responded to it “No problem”according to The Guardian.
The facility was already taken up in 2019
This isn’t the first time that a banana has been eaten from a “comedy” piece. In 2019, in Miami, USA, artist David Datuna ate the piece of fruit that made up the installation that was on display at Basel Art Gallery.
At the same event, the first copy of the work sold for $120,000 (about 109,300 euros), and the second was put up for sale for $150,000 (about 136,700 euros), before being eaten by David Datuna.
Datuna asked at the time: “I’ve traveled to 67 countries around the world in the past three years and seen how people live. Millions die without food. So he puts three bananas on the wall for half a million dollars?”
Maurizio Cattelan has already created works of art that have caused a lot of talk, such as the 28-carat gold toilet, valued at around one million euros, stolen in 2019 from the palace. Blenheim in Oxfordshire.