The pickle that some people remove from their McDonald’s hamburger may be the $6+ work of art,197 dollars of someone else, like an artist.
Matthew Griffin took the pickle off a McDonald’s cheeseburger and threw it onto the ceiling of the Michael Lett Art Gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. The piece called “Pickle” became one of the new works in the Sydney Fine Art exhibition.
View this post on InstagramThe supposed pickle artwork on the ceiling costs 10,000000 New Zealand dollars equivalent to approximately 6,200 American dollars.
According to The Guardian, the pickle is attached to the ceiling only with the sauces that were served on the hamburger.
Whoever buys “Pickle” won’t exactly get the pickle from the ceiling in the gallery. The buyer will be given instructions on how to recreate the work in their own space. In addition to the thousands of dollars being asked for the play, an additional fee must be paid for a McDonald’s burger to get the pickle replica.
“Pickle” raises questions about how people decide the meaning and value of something, said Ryan Moore, Director of Fine Arts in Sydney.
“In general terms, artists are not the ones who decide if something is art or it is not… If something is valuable and significant as a work of art, it is the way in which collectively, as a society, we choose to use it or talk about it”, Moore told The Guardian.
piece recalls a “Comedian”, the work of art by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. A ripe banana taped to the gallery wall during Art Basel in Miami, in 2019. The work quickly sold for US $99,000. Then a second banana was also sold for $106,000 just a couple of hours later.
One of Cattelan’s bananas was ripped from the wall and eaten by New York performance artist David Datuna, who noted that the fruit had good taste.
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