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Duct Tape Emojis

In 2019, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan ignited a global art-world frenzy with Comedian: a real banana duct-taped to a wall at Art Basel Miami Beach. Presented by Galerie Perrotin, the work was sold in multiple editions for prices reportedly around $120,000 each, instantly becoming a lightning rod for debates about value, authorship, and absurdity in contemporary art.
In November 2024, Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun made headlines by buying one edition of Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian at Sotheby’s New York auction for about US $6.2 million (far above its pre-sale estimate).