Brooks, Banksy’s public relations manager.Īs the artwork shredded itself, a seemingly unperturbed Mr. “We never comment on identity issues,” said Ms. However, Banksy now revealed that the painting should. Banksy and the Gunningham family in Bristol have denied the connection. Everyone turned around, and the picture had slipped through its frame. In 2008, the newspaper The Mail on Sunday suggested that Banksy was in fact Robin Gunningham, who was born in Bristol in the west of England and dropped out of private school at age 16 to dabble in street art, a theory for which academic researchers have found corroboration. The identity of the artist remains a secret. The prank was one of several recorded in his best-selling book “Wall and Piece.” The following year, he left an inflatable doll dressed as a Guantánamo Bay prisoner in Disneyland. Recently he delivered perhaps his most famous artwork, protesting against the commodification of art by very publicly having his own work shredded at auction.
In 2005, the artist hung one of his “modified canvases,” showing a 19th-century beauty wearing a 20th-century gas mask, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for two hours. They must have known.”įor more than a decade, Banksy has created headlines with his daring, politically subversive artistic stunts. “And Sotheby’s let a man with a bag into the building. His "Girl With Balloon" was originally stenciled on a wall in east London and has been endlessly reproduced, becoming one of Banksy's best-known images.“If it had been offered earlier in the sale, it would have caused disruption and sellers would have complained about that,” Ms. Banksy's painting was meant to be shredded completely 'Girl with Balloon,' now renamed 'Love Is in the Bin,' was meant to be destroyed entirely, but the frame malfunctioned at Sotheby's auction. His mischievous and often satirical images include two policemen kissing, armed riot police with yellow smiley faces and a chimpanzee with a sign bearing the words, "Laugh now, but one day I'll be in charge." He began his career spray-painting buildings in Bristol, England, and has become one of the world's best-known artists. Share this video: Banksy's 'Love is in the Bin.
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The auction and partial shredding are shown, as is the work being taken off the wall at Sotheby's and carried out of the room.īanksy has never disclosed his full identity. A half-shredded Banksy picture now called 'Love is in the Bin', sells at auction in London for a record 16 million pounds, nearly 22 million dollars. People milling about sipping Champagne and nibbling hors d'oeuvres are next up, including some standing in front of the painting. The nearly 3-minute long video is titled, "Shred the Love, the Director's cut." It shows hands and a hooded figure (Banksy is fond of hoodies) constructing the mechanism in a studio space, then it rolls on to the outside of Sotheby's before the auction. The end of the new video notes: "In rehearsals it worked every time." A complete shredding of the same design is then shown. It was this friend who put it up for auction.) The video showed images of the shredder being implanted into the picture frame. See also: Banksy Video Shows How He Rigged Frame With Hidden Shredder The work was purchased by a European art collector. The canvas was shredded to right above the girl's head, leaving the balloon intact. The video displays a message that in rehearsals it worked every time. The partial shredding drew speculation that the act was a stunt to increase the value of the painting of a young girl reaching for a heart-shaped red balloon. The act shocked the crowd, but the winning bidder, a European collector, went ahead and bought it anyway for $1.4 million, according to the auction house. The video shows the famously anonymous artist constructing the shredding mechanism inside an ornate frame and pushing a button in a black box to activate the destruction at Sotheby's in London earlier this month. Banksy posted a new video to his website Tuesday implying the partial shredding of his "Girl With Balloon" at a London auction was supposed to have been complete.
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