Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan has recreated his controversial artwork La nona ora from 1999. The new work is named La nona ora, den nionde timmen and references the moment Jesus died on the cross on Good Friday. He has made 666 miniatures of the sculpture, selling for 2,200 euros each.
The number 666 was likely chosen to further provoke the Catholic Church. Starting April 2, a hotline monitored by the artist himself is available. Cattelan is best known for his conceptual work Comedian, which consists of instructions for attaching a banana to a wall with duct tape.
2 million dollars, equivalent to 60 million kronor, and he ate it in front of filming cameras. Cattelan's banana work was received with mixed feelings and divided the art world into two camps: some viewed it as a stroke of genius, while others dismissed it as nonsense.