RINGER - Tableau sculpture : Catch the Sun XL

The buyer of the artwork Comedian (the famous duct-taped banana by Maurizio Cattelan) is the entrepreneur and billionaire Justin Sun, founder of the cryptocurrency platform Tron. He acquired the work for $6.2 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York in November 2024, before eating the banana himself in public a few days later.

The Catch the Sun artwork is there to underline all the absurdities one can encounter today in contemporary art.

Ringer
Tableau sculpture: Catch the Sun
75X50 cm
2026

Canvas print, banana sculpture in resin, acrylic markers

A Certificate of Authenticity is delivered with the work.

Ringer is a fascinating French artist; she mainly draws inspiration from expressive movements such as Surrealism, Hyperrealism, the COBRA movement, the chiaroscuro of Edward Hopper, and the works of David Hockney, Picasso, and Basquiat. She is also an artist who moves in the spheres of Pop Art and Street Art.

For Catawiki, Ringer (maiden name of his mother) has been exploring for more than two years the extraordinary facets of the works of Hopper, Hockney, Basquiat, Picasso, Cattelan, American abstract painting, as well as staged scenes around themes of luxury, cars, romance, etc. These works, first created in Photoshop, then refined with various materials such as sculpture, spray paint, and acrylic markers, are a call to dream, to luxury, to serenity, and will find their place in your home.

*The in-situ visuals are AI visualizations based on photographs of the real object. The photographs of the real object are authoritative.