Sotheby's and the 6.2 Million Dollar Cattelan Banana Pretending To Be Art
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Sotheby's and the 6.2 Million Dollar Banana Pretending To Be Art
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Don't let intellect get in the way of what is a recreation of something far beyond our 21st century world. This thought provoking presentation takes us back to the mist's of man's creativity, something that can proudly stand alongside the best cave paintings to come out of Africa. Some of us can clearly see the story that the artist is trying to communicate, i just wish my chequebook was in a ruder health....oh well i shall just have to visit the hard ware store for some tape and see what is available in my salad compartment....😉
It won't be sold again. The Buyer ate it 😂
The auction house show that they're only in it for the money. As the gatekeepers of fine art, they insult their reputation by selling rotting fruit duct taped to the wall.
Great, Peter, thanks!!
Peter thank you for making me laugh
It's no wonder they're in dire straights financially
Thanks for yelling out: "The Emperor wears no clothes!
This banana is today's Marcel Duchamp Fountain.
@@remsan03at least it wasn't as watered down to make weird art back then. Today a piece like this has now value aside money launder
That's bananas...🍌...😂
Photographs were once considered not art
But now they are considered an art
He did it for publicity and succeeded, the stock went bananas 🍌
It's astonishing to see this result. 😂
This is just an orchestrated play:
leading actors: the buyer, and Sotheby's ;
supporting role: the artist - who was just happy to play along;
director: the new "real" owner of Sotheby's
The whole sale is partly money laundering, partly PR as Sotheby's is emerging from near bankruptcy.
please Mr Combs, can you activate your subtitles, im from spain and its easyear to follow you with the subtitles to some phrases i lost, thank you!
Close Captions can be turned on by any viewer by clikcint the "CC" icon at the bottome of the screen. Or did you mean soething else?
@@PeterCombs Now UA-cam translates and puts an artificial voice in Spanish, I'm from Spain and I was surprised to see you speaking in Spanish hahaha, I speak English so I prefer the native thanthe artificial voice, it makes translation errors
@@PeterCombs Thank you! I know but it was not activated, maybe I came soon and was not generated yet, thank you!
@@albert6011si, lo sabia aun lo tienen que pulir la voz que le han puesto es terrible, en otros canales he visto mejores voces, creo que llegue demasiado pronto y no estaban activados ni subtituls ni doblaje, gracias por la ayuda
The reason the auctioneer is smiling is because of the commission the house will make in selling a single banana, whereas the fruit sellers are not a happy bunch! Some may have even gone bananas when they heard the hammer price.
Well, if the project is soon worth nothing, then you can claim in good conscience that you have lost 6 million. Bravo!
Fruit 🍌 flies included
Just pity and joke at the same time. 😂
It’s a crazy world these days. I really don’t know what to make of it
This was bananas😮
It's these kinds of ridiculous stunts that give the art world a bad reputation. It's not about the art, it's about the con.
who ever bought this must be bananas !
think good on Sotheby's for being able to capture the attention of the world's richest eyeballs and achieving such a good result on such a controversial piece. I think it goes to show the role that elite auction houses such as Christie's and Sotheby's play in determining prices of valuable objects, whether it's a monet, a huanghuali chair, limited production leather goods, an experience or an nft. Unless you live in a completely despotic country. No one person agency company or marketplace defines what art is, or set prices. At the end of the day the hammer price is based on what somebody is willing to pay. And people buy stuff for many reasons. Not just to have as a decorative object to adorn one's house and hope that it appreciates. They could be doing it for the prestige, for the publicity and bragging rights, for the belief that they own a piece of History. or perhaps they're the heiress of Chiquita banana. For whatever reason, it makes sense to them , and so it's not up to one person to determine what is tasteful. As far as price, it's the market that determines it. Sotheby's just kind of make sure everything is legal and legit and they're middlemen, they're not forcing people to pay such high prices. As art though, the banana piece, which by the way comes with the certificate of authenticity by the artist ,is probably the most well-known piece of art made in the last few years, documented in probably thousands of publications throughout the world. It made a splash. The world ate it up, and sotherbys made a huge commission, and did it's job as auctioneer
It could be an act of money laundry.
But this does make sense as it's just like all these luxury branded goods so beloved by many high end auctioneers. It's easy money, at the same time artificially creating even higher value for things which intrinsically have little or no value......such as a banana
Absolutely ridiculous
Sotheby's also made a small documentary to justify the shame of selling it...
The Chinese buyer is not for art but for fame and news cycle it generates
Perhaps money laundering too
Art with a capital F
Why would you want to replicate, Bruno Hat lives, it's been done, "old hat." Someone is just wanting for people to know they have money to 🔥.
I actually found this very sad.
It's not art - It's Crap !
(i wouldn't stick that on my wall)
🍌👍
Can I eat the banana first?
You cannot make this shite up.
It is an insult to artists and art
Geldwäsche
"DADAISM" was just as hated, misunderstood, rejected, and characterized as superfluous. Just like movies and their critics, "ART" is very subjective. Ever hear of the saying. "One man's garbage is another man's treasure"? Let's us all get off our high horses and let each person define their own "ART". Whatever gives meaning to someone, whether positive or negative emotion, then let that someone enjoy it & declare it as their art.
But why?
What is this saying and how is it saying what it's saying? What artistic techniques is it using to communicate?
You might not love, say, Rembrandt. You might not like his style or subject matter. But hopefully you can recognize that he placed the figures in the composition a certain way, and used light and shadow a certain way, and went out and drew people and observed their facial expressions and learned from that, to show the figures' emotions.
Yes, I guess there are elements of design used here. The straight lines of the tape contrast with the curve of the banana. There are four colors used, and it was a choice to place the banana in the center of the whiteboard. But why? What is the artist trying to say there?
A lot of people would say it's not saying anything.
A few people would come up with some completely fake interpretation, and crowds of people, who admire those people for their clothes or their Instagram photos would say "Wooow that's so deep!" because they want to get in close with those people.
The issue isn't that one or two people like this thing, or spend their money on paperbacks about this thing. The issue is that it gets this high a valuation.
The issue is that an institution that has had respect is now participating in this.
I mean, you could say that the "point" is rich people making fun of poor people by showing off that they can spend that much money on cheap tape and a perishable fruit.
ART is ART, no matter the monetary valuation. No matter the cost, it's worth something to whoever is paying for it. If someone gets an item for free (or pays for it for "less" than the subjective valuation) , then does that make the item less of an artwork???? The price of an item doesn't make ART...rather, the personal monetary valuation of whoever obtains it (and the personal emotion one gets from obtaining that item) is what makes ART! Do not assume your definition to be correct over someone else's! Also, if Sotheby's, Christie's, or any other house of auction deems the item as artwork, then so be it. Again, PEOPLE NEEDS TO GET OFF THEIR HIGH HORSES, AND STOP ACTING LIKE THEY ARE THE END-ALL EXPERTS IN THE ART WORLD.
Peter sounding like a real boomer 😄 You know art and the value of art is incredibly subjective, what is real art or not or why it is worth what it is worth, one could view it as a whole web of human bs tbh, and masturbating over details and delicacies to ones approval or not. I believe the whole irony here is this piece of art is suppose to be a joke and commentary on these exact issues, and he is probably even making a joke on his own value as an artist. This also has more to do with the stupidity of the market than the artist himself as well, and we all know how stupid the market is, although of course if the value of your own collection has gone up in these stupid bubbles that's ok hey?
But why do you like living in a world where nothing is taken seriously, and where jokes like this get put on the same level by an institution that used to be respected?
I'm a nihilist, I don't believe in anything. It's not about loving something because someone else labeled it as sacred a long time ago. It's about respecting the ability of the human mind to create things, and communicate.
It's disrespectful to artists, living or dead, in any medium, who put effort into the details of their work.
@@FidesAla both what I am saying and what you are saying can be true is the point, and why should anything ever be taken too seriously? Art can be a beautiful form of expression and communication, it can also be a rigid confined and imposed product built off the expectations of others or even just for survival/monetary gain, paradoxes abound. Peter is essentially disrespecting artists with this type of conservative take on 'modern art' and declaring how art can be defined or not. You realise the irony in all this in that this piece of 'art' has created so much attention, that we are discussing it and it even got Peter to make a video about it is art in itself? Real art is life IMO and all around you, anything that creates a response and has an impact on you can be art, its the deeper aspects of emotion and the subconscious. My perspective changes all the time too, sometimes I have nice attachments in different forms to my collection, sometimes I want to get rid of it all and find the attachments or ideas of monetary values burdens to my mind.
@@FidesAla if you are a nihilist as well why would you express the idea of Sotheby's being a respected institution? Since when do nihilists hold strong opinions about anything anyway? Places like this were corporatized quite a while ago. I am probably a Discordian myself influenced by Robert Anton Wilson, hence my ramblings, everything is subjective and prone to bias.
@@petecabrinawhen everything is art, then nothing is. And the poor Bangladeshi fruit seller who sold the original banana and worked a lot harder than this "artist" certainly didn't think much of this piece of "art". Dude was the source of the original piece and was paid $0.35. Maybe he needs a cut of this $6.2 million?
@@OGA103 it is subjective, is that so hard to stomach? And who decides exactly how to define art? And yes everything in life can be art or nothing at all, if you like. You must have also missed the part where I pointed out the artist himself never had any hand in the value of his own art work, does he even care? Do you even know his history as an artist or take? Your take on the divide of rich and poor is very good though, it is the general toxic state of things and will probably even bring everything undone this decade. The greed, hype and speculation around art and objects I think was part of my point about what is the true value of art as well and all part of the interesting psychology. Do you appreciate art for what it is from your perspective or do you allow value and implied importance to influence you?