6.2 million dollars Banana was eaten

Justin Sun, the Chinese cryptocurrency trader and founder of the platform Tron, who recently bought a piece of art called Comedian by Maurizio Cattelan for $6.2 million, on Friday revealed the work, which consisted of just a banana taped to a wall. He ate and displayed this action on social networks.

Boraq Hamim artistic news site , Sun wrote in a post on X social network: “Many friends have asked me about the taste of bananas. For a banana with such a background, it naturally tastes different. “I felt like Big Mike’s bananas from 100 years ago.”

Gros Michel bananas, once very common, are now almost out of stock.
The Sun also announced that it will provide 100,000 bananas for free to customers in gratitude to Shahab Alam, a 74-year-old Bangladeshi vendor who sold the bananas for just 25 cents.

But Shahab Alam told the New York Times that this plan is facing logistical problems. Alam, who works at a fruit stall for $12 an hour, explained that this action does not affect his income because he is not the owner of the stall and is just a simple employee.

This is not Sun’s first experience in million dollar payments; In 2019, he spent $4.8 million on a lunch with Warren Buffett, and in 2021, he paid $28 million for a trip to space, though that trip was ultimately canceled.

Is this art?

The recent sale of Comedian is just the latest stage in the story of this project.
Maurizio Cattelan presented the work at Art Basel Miami in 2019, where three copies sold for $120,000 and $150,000.

From the moment it was unveiled, this banana stuck to the wall became a viral phenomenon and a humorous and unusual interpretation of the question “What is art?” became
Critic Andrew Roseth wrote in ARTnews in 2019: “For many, Comedian is a great lesson about the excesses of the art world, the art market, and the enormous wealth disparities in the global economy.”

Shortly after the first sale, an artist took a banana from the wall and ate it in front of the audience; An act that was repeated again in 2023 in South Korea. In both cases, the banana was replaced and the Comedian effect continued.