HONG KONG: Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun Friday fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2 million (over Rs 52.3 crore) on an artwork featuring a banana duct-taped to a wall – by eating the fruit.
At one of Hong Kong’s priciest hotels, Sun chomped down on a banana in front of a large audience after hailing the work as “iconic”, and drew parallels between conceptual art and cryptocurrency. “It’s much better than other bananas. It’s really quite good,” he said.
Titled ‘Comedian’, the work created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was sold at a Sotheby’s auction in New York last week, with Sun among seven bidders.
Sun said he felt “disbelief” in the first 10 seconds after he won the bid, before realising “this could become something big”. In the 10 seconds after that, he decided he would eat the banana.