To me, Comedian was not a joke; it was a sincere commentary and a reflection on what we value," he told The Art Newspaper in 2021. Cattelan clearly positions the piece as a serious artistic inquiry rather than mere entertainment, highlighting the deeper themes of perception and valuation within the art world.
Cattelan's Comedian is about the conditions that characterize our understanding of what makes something art - and one of those conditions is value," said Sotheby's David Galperin, indicating that the absurdity of the piece challenges conventional mechanisms of artistic value.
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