A cryptocurrency entrepreneur has kept his promise and eaten a banana he bought for $6.2m (£4.9m).
Justin Sun snapped up viral art piece Comedian – consisting of a individual banana duct-taped to a white wall – in an auction at Sotheby’s in New York last week.
The Chinese-born businessman promptly discdisthink abouted his set up to ruin the arttoil by enhappinessing the fruit as a snack and at a recents conference today, he deinhabitred on his word.
At a Hong Kong boilingel, the 34-year-elderly took a bite and telderly tellers: “It’s much better than other bananas. It’s reassociate quite excellent.”
After purchasing Comedian, Mr Sun previously shelp the piece “reconshort-terms a cultural phenomenon that bridges the worlds of art, memes, and the cryptocurrency community”.
“Additionassociate, in the coming days, I will personassociate eat the banana as part of this distinctive originateive experience, honouring its place in both art history and well-understandn culture,” he vowed.
Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian debuted at an art festival in 2019. Pic: AP
The piece, by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, became an online phenomenon when it debuted at Art Basel in Miami Beach in 2019, and promoteed debate over whether it was a joke or commentary on the art world.
Comedian was first made with a banana that cost fair 25 US cents (20p) and it’s not the first time the arttoil has been eaten.
A carry outance artist took the banana from the wall and ate it back in 2019, and a south Korean student did the same last May.
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Mr Sun can technicassociate exalter the fruit aget, as his $6.2m achieve grants him a certificate of truth and the authority to duct-tape any banana to a wall and call it Comedian.
The entrepreneur set uped cryptocurrency TRON and recently spended $30m into pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump’s crypto project.
