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Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s artwork featuring a fresh banana taped to a wall has been eaten by a visitor to a museum in France.
The piece, titled “Comedian,” was eaten by a gallery-goer at the Centre-Pompidou Metz in eastern France on July 12, according to a statement from the museum, published Monday.
“The security team acted quickly and calmly, according to internal procedures,” the gallery said in the statement.
“The artwork was reinstalled a few minutes later,” it said, adding that the banana is “only a perishable element” that is replaced on a regular basis according to Cattelan’s instructions.
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