Famously Magritte paints a pipe, with the painted words ‘ceci n’est pas une pipe.’, whereas here the artist presents two bananas and calls them ‘Spoons’.

Two bronze cast bananas painted in a cartoon playful fashion, displayed spooning each other – a minimal still life, abandoned by the rest of the fruit bowl. These bananas are an exotic and suggestive symbol of global trade, logistics, markets, and power as well as gender and sexuality. 

The artist is playfully homaging the history of bananas in art by artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Georgio de Chirico and Andy Warhol.
 
In 2005 Gavin Turk produced a series of banana fruit stickers and in 2013 created a 4m neon Banana sculpture that was exhibited in his show at the Bowes Museum, more recently in October 2021 the Artist revealed a new painted bronze blackened banana 'Giraffe' at Frieze London as a nod to Maurizio Cattelan. 



Spoons

Painted bronze

Famously Magritte paints a pipe, with the painted words ‘ceci n’est pas une pipe.’, whereas here the artist presents two bananas and calls them ‘Spoons’.Two bronze cast bananas painted in a cartoon playful fashion, displayed spooning each other – a minimal still life, abandoned by the rest of the fruit bowl. These bananas are an exotic and suggestive symbol of global trade, logistics, markets, and power as well as gender and sexuality. The artist is playfully homaging the history of bananas in art by artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Georgio de Chirico and Andy Warhol. In 2005 Gavin Turk produced a series of banana fruit stickers and in 2013 created a 4m neon Banana sculpture that was exhibited in his show at the Bowes Museum, more recently in October 2021 the Artist revealed a new painted bronze blackened banana 'Giraffe' at Frieze London as a nod to Maurizio Cattelan.

Painted Bronze

Famously Magritte paints a pipe, with the painted words ‘ceci n’est pas une pipe.’, whereas here the artist presents two bananas and calls them ‘Spoons’. Two bronze cast bananas painted in a cartoon playful fashion, displayed spooning each other – a minimal still life, abandoned by the rest of the fruit bowl. These bananas are an exotic and suggestive symbol of global trade, logistics, markets, and power as well as gender and sexuality.