意大利艺术家的香蕉艺术品以620万美元售出
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A much-publicized art piece made up of a single banana taped to a wall has sold for $6.2 million.
一件广受关注的艺术品——仅由一根贴在墙上的香蕉构成——以620万美元的价格售出。
The sale happened Wednesday night during an auction in New York City at famous art seller Sotheby’s.
这幅画作于周三晚间在纽约市著名艺术品拍卖行苏富比的一场拍卖会上售出。
The work, called Comedian, was sold to cryptocurrency businessman Justin Sun.
这件名为《喜剧演员》的作品被卖给了加密货币商人孙宇晨。
He is a Chinese collector and founder of the cryptocurrency company Tron.
他是一位中国收藏家，也是加密货币公司波场的创始人。
Sun placed the winning bid over the phone and the sale was completed in cryptocurrency.
孙通过电话赢得了竞标，交易以加密货币完成。
Before the auction, Sotheby’s said the unusual art piece was expected to bring in at least $1.5 million.
苏富比拍卖行此前表示，这件不同寻常的艺术品预计将拍得至少150万美元。
But the price quickly started rising after the auction began, with people bidding inside the auction room, as well as on the phone and online.
但拍卖开始后，价格迅速攀升，拍卖厅内、电话以及网络上均有人竞拍。
The art piece had already sold three times for prices between $120,000 and $150,000, The Associated Press reported.
据美联社报道，这件艺术品已经以12万至15万美元的价格售出三次。
Sun said in a statement after the auction that Comedian "is not just an artwork."
孙在拍卖后的一份声明中表示，《喜剧演员》"不仅仅是一件艺术品"。
He added that the piece "bridges the worlds of art, memes, and the cryptocurrency community.
他补充说，这件作品“连接了艺术、模因和加密货币社区的世界”。
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Sun said he planned to eat the banana, as at least two onlookers did when the artwork was presented at places around the world.
孙说，他打算吃掉那根香蕉，就像这件艺术品在世界各地展出时至少有两名旁观者所做的那样。
Sotheby’s says the fruit was always meant to be replaced repeatedly, along with the duct tape.
苏富比表示，这根香蕉和胶带原本就打算被反复更换。
The work was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.
这件作品由意大利艺术家莫瑞吉奥·卡特兰创作。
It was first presented in 2019 at the Art Basel Miami Beach show in Miami, Florida.
它于2019年在佛罗里达州迈阿密的巴塞尔艺术展迈阿密海滩展会上首次展出。
The piece quickly led to much public discussion about what should be considered art.
这篇文章很快引发了公众对于什么才应被视为艺术的广泛讨论。
Comedian belongs to a kind of art known as conceptual artwork.
喜剧演员属于一种被称为概念艺术的艺术形式。
A conceptual piece is one in which the idea or meaning behind the work is more important than the finished object itself.
概念艺术作品是指作品背后的理念或意义比成品本身更重要的艺术形式。
The head of contemporary art at Sotheby’s is David Galperin.
苏富比当代艺术主管是戴维·加尔佩林。
He told the AP he understands the piece’s popularity because it is highly provocative.
他告诉美联社，他理解这首作品为何受欢迎，因为它极具挑衅性。
Provocative describes something likely to produce a strong reaction and much public debate.
“挑衅性”指某事物可能引发强烈反应和大量公众争论。
“What Cattelan is really doing is turning a mirror to the contemporary art world,” Galperin said.
加尔佩林说：“卡泰兰真正在做的是为当代艺术界竖起一面镜子。”
He added that he thinks Comedian can cause people to question what values should be attached to artworks and what can be defined as artwork.
他补充说，他认为《喜剧演员》能引发人们思考艺术品应该被赋予什么价值，以及什么可以被定义为艺术品。
“What you buy when you buy Cattelan’s Comedian is not the banana itself, but a certificate of authenticity,” Galperin said.
“你购买卡泰兰的《喜剧演员》时，买的不是香蕉本身，而是一份真品证书，”加尔佩林说道。
That document, he added, gives the owner permission to reproduce the banana and duct tape on their own wall as an original artwork by the artist.
他补充说，该文件允许所有者在自己的墙上复制这根香蕉和胶带，作为艺术家的原创作品。
The sale of Comedian came shortly after Sotheby’s auctioned off a famed artwork in the Water Lilies series by French painter Claude Monet.
在苏富比拍卖行成功拍出法国画家克劳德·莫奈《睡莲》系列中的一幅著名画作后不久，《喜剧演员》便售出了。
That piece sold on Monday for $65.5 million.
那件作品周一以6550万美元售出。
When asked to compare Cattelan's simple wall art to major works like Monet's, Galperin said that form of art, called impressionism, was not taken seriously when that movement first began.
当被要求将卡泰兰的简单墙面艺术与莫奈等大师的作品进行比较时，加尔佩林表示，印象派这种艺术形式在运动初期并未受到重视。
“No important, profound, meaningful artwork of the past 100 years or 200 years, or our history for that matter, did not provoke some kind of discomfort when it was first unveiled,” Galperin said.
加尔佩林说：“过去100年或200年里，任何重要、深刻、有意义的艺术作品，或者就此事而言，我们的历史，在首次面世时都曾引起过某种不适。”
I’m Bryan Lynn.
我是布莱恩·林恩。
The Associated Press reported this story.
美联社报道了这一事件。
Bryan Lynn adapted the report for VOA Learning English.
布莱恩·林恩为VOA英语学习频道改编了这份报告。
