Damien Hirst says banana taped to wall is ‘serious art’ ‘It is everything art gets a bad name for and everything I love about art,’ said the British artist.
Hirst, 59, named the artwork as one of two picks for a new educational scheme in which leading contemporary artists (including Hirst, Bridget Riley, and Antony Gormley) select other artists’ works to be presented in secondary school classrooms via specialised hi-res screens.
Damien Hirst has given his verdict on Comedian, the divisive work of art by Maurizio Cattelan, which consists of a banana duct-taped to a wall.
“It is everything art gets a bad name for and everything I love about art.
William Blake’s disturbing The Ghost of a Flea was selected by Hirst alongside Comedian, with Hirst explaining why he embraced the “stupidity” of the latter work.
