‘He Was Hungry’: A Korean Art Student Untaped Maurizio Cattelan’s Infamous $150,000 Banana From a Museum Wall and Ate It
It’s not the first time someone has turned an edition of the artwork into a quick meal.

We’ve all been there: wandering the halls of an art museum, when suddenly hunger strikes. But when one South Korean art student got peckish at the Leeum Museum Art in Seoul, he made the bold decision to eat one of the artworks: Comedian, a banana taped to the wall by the notoriously prankster artist Maurizio Cattelan.

“The student told the museum he ate it because he was hungry,” a spokesperson for the Leeum told CNN. “It happened suddenly, so no special action was taken. The artist [Cattelan] was informed of the incident but he didn’t have any reaction to it.”

Noh Huyn-soo, a student of aesthetics and religion at Seoul National University, had a friend record a video of him eating Cattelan’s Comedian. Someone can be heard in the background shouting “excuse me” as Noh removes the banana from the wall. It took just over a minute for him to consume the fruit, after which he taped the peel back on the wall and smiled for the camera.

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‘He Was Hungry’: A Korean Art Student Untaped Maurizio Cattelan’s Infamous $150,000 Banana From a Museum Wall and Ate It