I too have a nearly perfect replica of this piece. I'm selling each piece, which is part of an extremely limited run of 1000 pieces in total produced this week on demand, signed and sealed in a Tupperware container for freshness, for $2,990 each, worldwide shipping is just another $299.
It's really just one of a limited number of licenses which allows the owner of the license to showcase the work and legally regard it as an official work from the artist who first came up with the idea. Anyone can tape a banana to a wall, but only a few can do so and say that it's an 'original'.
I don't know if I can trust the license. Any way to make it burn a ton of electricity to function?
Money laundering
For real. If I really wanted the "art" I wouldn't have to spend more than $15. $5 for a roll of duct tape, $10 for a banana.
Yo I was about to comment this.
Like literally.
How do you transfer a huge amount of money.
Just get the receipient to create "art"
Instruct receipient to sell "art" for the amount of money
Voila, legal money laundering!
I don't understand how buying art with 6.2 m in cash is not going to be suspicious though?
Yeah, it's the first thing I thought. Everybody else sees it too, right? This is well past dadaism.
...but wasn't this the case all along in the art market, except for institutional buyers?
I don't get the apeel.
I might be splitting hairs, but it’s appeal.
It's a pun. A peel, like the skin on a banana.
As was mine, albeit a poor one.
Splitting as in banana split.
You cannot stop idiots from being stupid.
Actually we are the idiots, because we just let them launder money
World gone mad.
The rich need more money laundering vehicles.
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