Maurizio Cattelan Faces Plagiarism Lawsuit Over Famed Banana Artwork – RisePEI
Having lately prevented authorized drama in France, artist Maurizio Cattelan is dealing with a separate lawsuit within the U.S. over his famed banana sculpture Comic, which prompted a stir at Artwork Basel Miami Seashore in 2019.
Artist Joe Morford has alleged that Cattelan plagiarized his work Banana & Orange (2000), which equally options items of fruit which are duct-taped to a wall. Cattelan’s authorized workforce had tried to have the lawsuit tossed out however, final week, a choose for the Southern District of Florida dominated that there was sufficient of a resemblance between Comic and Banana & Orange for the go well with to maneuver ahead.
“Morford should plausibly allege that Cattelan had entry to Banana & Orange and that—after dissecting Banana & Orange and stripping (or filtering) away the non-protected parts of it—there’s a substantial similarity between the 2 works,” Choose Robert N. Scola, Jr. wrote in a ruling filed on Wednesday.
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Morford claims the work was out there on Fb and YouTube, though it stays unclear whether or not Cattelan really noticed the piece on both of these social media platforms.
A consultant for Cattelan didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
When it was proven at Artwork Basel Miami Seashore, Comic generated a combination out of shock and fascination, and was at one level even eaten by an area efficiency artist. In the end, the work acquired a lot consideration that it needed to be eliminated altogether by Perrotin, the gallery that had introduced it to the honest and offered three copies of it for a complete of $390,000.
A model of Comic is at present on view at a Cattelan survey on the Sea World Tradition and Arts Middle in Shenzhen.
The lawsuit is the second this 12 months involving Cattelan’s work. The primary occurred in Paris and concerned questions on whether or not Cattelan could possibly be thought of the writer of a few of his most well-known works, on condition that he had commissioned a wax sculptor to provide them. That go well with was dismissed final week. Cattelan was not a defendant in that go well with, though Perrotin, his gallery, and the Monnaie de Paris, an artwork area that staged a survey of his artwork, had been.
