On November 29, Justin Sun, founder of TRON, attended the media conference of The Most Expensive Banana Comedian and said that Comedian is not only a work of art, but also a cultural phenomenon that connects art, meme and crypto communities. In the future, he will continue to support friendly interactions between different industries, promote communication and collaboration between the crypto community and other different fields, and create a diverse and commonly understood Web3 cultural ecology. TRON will play a role in the convenient, open and secure technical infrastructure.
On the 21st of this month, Justin Sun announced on social media that he had successfully won the iconic work Comedian by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan for $6.24 million (about 45.1 million RMB). While announcing the winning of the work, he said, This work will inspire more thinking and discussion in the future, and I hope it will bring more inspiration to art lovers around the world.
Comedian is a conceptual artwork created by Maurizio Cattelan in 2019, which features a banana taped to a wall. When it was first exhibited, it sparked widespread discussion around the world, challenging the traditional definition of art and sparking a discussion on the value of art.
Maurizio Cattelan is an Italian national treasure artist, known as one of the greatest artists who best represents post-Duchampism. His works are mainly sculptures and installations, full of humor and tragedy, and are famous for challenging or questioning the conventional rules of art.
There are three pieces in the Comedian series, two of which were sold in 2019 for $120,000, and the third was donated to the Guggenheim Museum. One of them was picked and eaten by performance artist David Datuna while on display in Miami, USA.
To celebrate this art collection, Justin Sun tasted the banana in the work at a media conference. He said that this was an artistic act to pay tribute to the important position of Comedian in art history and popular culture.
Justin Sun also expressed the hope that this performance art could inspire more dialogue and interaction between the global art and crypto communities.
As one of the most influential figures in the blockchain and crypto industry, Justin Sun has always been concerned about cross-border exchanges and cooperation between the industry and art.
At the 2021 Christies Evening Sale in London, he spent about 16 million pounds to buy Picassos Reclining Nude with Necklace (Marie-Thérèse) and Andy Warhols Three Self-Portraits. Later, at the Sothebys New York Autumn Sale that year, Justin Sun bought Giacomettis sculpture The Nose for US$78.4 million. In addition, his collection also includes crypto artist Paks work Cube (US$950,000), Beeples OCEAN FRONT (US$6 million) and KAWSs packaging painting series Untitled (KIMPSONS), the latter of which was sold for HK$2.52 million at a special auction curated by Jay Chou.
In an earlier interview with the media, Justin Sun said that the combination of art and technology helps promote innovation and cross-border cooperation. He actively encourages artists to explore new ways of expression and art forms, and to create unique experiences and interactive methods through technological means. He believes that only through continuous reform and innovation can art keep pace with the times and truly touch peoples hearts.
In addition, Sun Yuchen is also actively promoting the development of encrypted digital culture through TRON. TRON is a decentralized platform based on blockchain. Through the TRON ecosystem, artists can better display their works to global audiences and realize the digitization and circulation of artworks.
TRON has also launched the TRC-721 standard protocol for the digitization of artworks, allowing everyone to participate in the creation and distribution of artworks; in August this year, SunPump, the first meme launch platform in the TRON ecosystem, was launched, allowing crypto users to easily publish and trade their own memes, which has been recognized by the industry. As an expression and recognition of the culture that the crypto community cares about, the memes related to Comedian have also attracted much attention.
Source: NetEase
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