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Post by pieter on Aug 26, 2019 2:11:10 GMT -7
BanksyBanksy is an anonymous England-based street artist, vandal, political activist, and film director, active since the 1990s. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world. Banksy's work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist who later became a founding member of the English musical group Massive Attack.
Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. Banksy no longer sells photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but his public "installations" are regularly resold, often even by removing the wall they were painted on. A small number of Banksy's works are officially, non-publicly, sold through Pest Control. Banksy's documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary for the film. In 2014, he was awarded Person of the Year at the 2014 Webby Awards.
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Post by pieter on Aug 26, 2019 2:11:34 GMT -7
Brexit mural
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Post by pieter on Aug 26, 2019 2:14:23 GMT -7
A Banksy mural at the Israeli West Bank barrier or wall (for further names see here) is a separation barrier in the West Bank or along the Green Line.
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Post by pieter on Aug 26, 2019 2:15:39 GMT -7
Banksy's Balloon Girl painting - a 2002 street mural of a young girl releasing a heart-shaped balloon that appeared on a wall of a Shoreditch shop - has been named Britain's favorite.
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Post by pieter on Aug 26, 2019 2:18:05 GMT -7
Banksy's Girl With Umbrella (2008). (Photo: Infrogmation. Via Flickr/Wikimedia Commons.)
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Post by pieter on Aug 26, 2019 2:19:19 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Aug 26, 2019 2:19:45 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Aug 26, 2019 2:21:32 GMT -7
After so many attempts, both successful and unsuccessful, to remove, borrow or destroy Banksy’s famous pieces, governments and authorities sometimes make an official decision to protect and preserve the artwork. This is also the case for some of the latest pieces made by the elusive street artist in Calais. Banksy’s mural depicting Steve Jobs as a Syrian refugee is one of the three pieces which appeared in the French port of Calais last week. Dubbed as Steve Jobs the Son of Syrian Migrant, the mural holds significant meaning and conveys an important message. Two other works of the same artist found in the Jungle are also to be protected and secured by a shield glass of transparent plastic panels.Source: www.widewalls.ch/banksy-calais-murals-protected/
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Post by pieter on Aug 26, 2019 2:24:20 GMT -7
Following Banksy’s unauthorized installation this Wednesday, the British street artist now confirms a new stenciled mural in Venice. The outdoor artwork portrays a migrant child wearing a lifejacket while holding a crackling neon pink flare. According to the Italian paper Artribune, the piece was first spotted early May in the Italian city’s Dorsoduro district during the Venice Biennale 2019 art fair. This latest piece may be addressing the global refugee crisis.
Banksy has often raised awareness for the refugee crisis throughout his years-long practice as a graffiti artist. For instance, he spray-painted a portrait of the late Steve Jobs with a black garbage bag thrown over one shoulder and an original Apple computer in his hand. The piece was painted in the Calais refugee camp back in 2015.
In addition to the work, Banksy expressed in a statement: “We’re often led to believe migration is a drain on the country’s resources but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant. Apple is the world’s most profitable company, it pays over $7 billion USD a year in taxes – and it only exists because they allowed in a young man from Homs.”Source: hypebeast.com/2019/5/banksy-migrant-child-mural-venice
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Post by pieter on Aug 26, 2019 2:30:26 GMT -7
Another Banksy Mural to Go From Wall to AuctionBanksy’s “Flower Girl” mural, created on the wall of a Los Angeles gas station, is to be auctioned in December.CreditCreditJulien's Auctions, via Associated PressBy Melena RyzikAug. 13, 2013Under cover of night, in 2008, Banksy, the pseudonymous British artist, stenciled a mural on a wall of a gas station in Los Angeles: the silhouette of a girl holding a basket of flowers and peering up at a security camera. About nine months ago, that 5,000-pound, 9-by-8-foot chunk of brick wall was removed, and, in the latest of a string of controversial sales of Banksy street work, will soon be on the block. In December, Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills, Calif., will offer “Flower Girl,” the first Banksy street art to be sold in the United States, the auctioneers said.
The gas station owner brought the wall himself, said Michael Doyle, the consignment director at Julien’s, which called the sale a “rare opportunity to own one of Banksy’s early large-scale graffiti murals,” made just as he was becoming the toast of the global art world. Mr. Doyle would not name the owner, but said the mural was installed with his permission after he was approached by Mr. Brainwash, a Los Angeles graffiti artist, to ask if “his friend” could work there. There was no mention of the name Banksy, but the image later appeared on his Web site. The high estimate is $300,000.
But there are signs that the work could fetch much more. This summer, “Slave Labour,” a Banksy mural behind a discount shop in London, was sold at a private auction there for $1.1 million. It depicted a barefoot boy kneeling over a sewing machine, stitching; real Union Jack fabric was attached to the wall. The stencil, which went up in May 2012, became a tourist attraction. In classic Banksy style, the piece had social and political undertones: the shop where it appeared, Poundland, had been embroiled in a controversy about selling goods produced using child labor. When “Slave Labour” disappeared from the building in February, Poundland, which was renting the property, denied it had anything to do with it. (Poundland had cut ties with suppliers in India that employ children several years ago.)
“Slave Labour” then popped up in an online listing though an auction house in Miami, but the sale was halted after protests from street art aficionados, who contended that public works were not intended for private consumption. It was eventually sold in London by the owners of the Poundland building. The Sincura Group, a concierge agency in London, handled the sale, and it is also behind the restoration and impending sale of another high-profile Banksy piece, “No Ball Games,” removed from a convenience store in the Tottenham neighborhood in London. Proceeds from its sale will go to charity, Sincura has promised. At the English seaside town of Torquay, another Banksy wall piece was recently covered to protect it.
Ownership of street art has been a hot topic in the art world. Graffiti is, by its very nature, ephemeral, and in most places illegal. Many street artists expect that their work will eventually fade away or be painted over. But as the genre has grown in stature and value, inspiring museum shows and commanding stratospheric prices, enterprising property owners, with adorned walls, are seeing windfalls in a few tagged-up bricks. For his part, Banksy, who documented, and poked fun at, the rise of street art culture in his Oscar-nominated documentary, “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” which starred Mr. Brainwash, has always differentiated between public murals and work for collectors.
“Graffiti art has a hard enough life as it is,” Banksy has said, “before you add hedge-fund managers wanting to chop it out and hang it over the fireplace. For the sake of keeping all street art where it belongs, I’d encourage people not to buy anything by anybody, unless it was created for sale in the first place.” And he has taken pains to repair situations in which the removal of his work has led to destruction. In 2011, he stenciled “This Looks a Bit Like an Elephant” on an oblong water tank on a cliff overlooking the Pacific between Santa Monica and Malibu, Calif., and posted a photo of it on his Web site. The site already had a resident artist: Tachowa Covington had lived in the tank, long abandoned, for seven years. He had kitted it out with furniture and electricity, according to a newspaper article in London in The Independent. He had mail delivered there, too.
But after Banksy added his slogan, the tank was quickly sold by the city to a design agency. Mr. Covington was homeless. When word reached Banksy, he gave Mr. Covington a year’s worth of money for an apartment and bills.
“He helped me so fast, I didn’t have to spend a single day more on the streets,” Mr. Covington told The Independent. “It was like a miracle.”
Later, when the design agency sought to sell the tank, Banksy refused to authenticate it, The Independent said. It ended up in a scrap heap.
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Post by pieter on Aug 26, 2019 2:35:06 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Aug 26, 2019 2:36:03 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Aug 26, 2019 2:37:03 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Aug 26, 2019 2:38:12 GMT -7
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