Banksy

[evilchoy]

so iam outside of the store and it is pretty surreal both the store and new yorkers reaction to what is happening. there are two attendants in overalls minding the store, but inside there a sense of proppy nense that feels intentional. as I write two b&t are arguing is the cat is real while one family runs out dissapointed they couldn't buy anything.

[evilchoy]

will post more the "employees" of the store are stating that there will be no main show....this is it?

[sleepboy]

Oct 9, 2008 16:16:42 GMT -8 evilchoy said:

will post more the "employees" of the store are stating that there will be no main show....this is it?

Interesting.... I'm almost sure there will be a show. Are they trying to throw us off?

[evilchoy]

that is what I also tink..a banksy lookalike isin the crowd somebody just defaced the storefront window (they scratched a tag in the glass) and the employees went and grabbed him.he ignores any questions.

[evilchoy]

So it seems November 1 at 8:00pm might be when the show the question is where?!?!



So the pet store closes on Friday the 31 and the other show opens the next night which kinda makes sense especially after reading what they wrote on the wall...funny that R. Kuszyk was the artist helping banksy do the murals

[wallakndy]

The date and time on that wall were remnants of the previous mural rather than being part of the current.

Photo from sabeth718

[sleepboy]

Oct 28, 2008 12:26:47 GMT -8 @wallakndy said:

The date and time on that wall were remnants of the previous mural rather than being part of the current.

LOL. That makes sense now...how disappointing. I still think it will happen, just don't know when.

[sleepboy]

I need him to paint on my house so that it can double in value too.

[svenman]

i've seen that mural. really impressive. its in liverpool, in an area where a lot of regeneration is currently going on, so i guess it won't be around for too much longer...
i had read somewhere that the mural was commissioned, but not sure by who.

[jujurocs]

Banksy defends his art:

Quote of the day by Banksy: "I was offended when Westminster said my painting was an advertisement. Advertising makes people feel inadequate and worthless. Graffiti doesn't do that. Graffiti doesn't emotionally blackmail you, graffiti doesn't make you feel fat and graffiti doesn't make you rush out and buy things, except maybe high strength cleaning products."

Complete article here:

www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1854618,00.html

[sleepboy]

A story came out today on slamxhype about a section of wall for sale on ebay that had a Banksy stencil on it from his times in Jamaica. The wall is free … but the catch is you have to purchase a set of photographs (one of which seen below) that chronicle the “deconstruction” of the wall - starting bid 100K. The photos are entitled “The Rock” taken by photographer Peter Dean Rickards of The Afflicted Yard, presumably the “owner” of the Banksy. So if you have a lot of money lying around, you can in the words of the seller “hoist it onto your wall at your mansion and have a big party with lots of coked-up models and invite the BBC.”



Here's the full story.

It was a non-eventful day when he actually drew them. He bought some construction paper from a local pharmacy and cut the stuff out. Then he drew this stencil of a girl on an exterior wall and some rabbits on the inside the pub itself. I kind of just stood there taking his picture because it was something to do. I had already captured his face back at Buju’s studio where he had done some other stuff so this was just extra. I didn’t really think much of it. I mean I live in a place where people get shot for marking up people’s walls (usually with a paintbrush), so a few sprayed stencils on the wall of a pub didn’t strike me as particularly interesting.

Later when I heard how much his stuff was selling for, I contemplated going back and chopping the wall down. It was there for years and I’m sure I’m not the only one who thought about doing it. Mona road is heavily travelled by a lot of foreign students on their way to the university so people from all over the world would often mention it, but nobody ever took the steps to cut it down…till this last August when I got a email from someone asking about my knowledge of the locations Banksy had tagged. That’s when I figured I should probably go get it before someone else did.

The wall is the last remaining tag that he did in Jamaica that can be seen in public. It’s also the only remaining stencil that has the tag BANKSY on it. The other ones were:

-A bridge in Charleton gully which was painted over.
-A rusting old ship near the airport (a stencil of a skull, crossbones and the signature ‘Banksy’has since faded)
-Buju Banton’s studio in Kingston ( where there is another ‘balloon girl’ and some flying insects.

The wall is 60 inches by 55 inches and about 7 inches thick. It weighs like 2000 pounds though that is just a guess. I spent the day getting a bunch of drunk guys to cut it down and raise it onto a flatbed truck tied to one of those sealtbelt-type industrial straps. I was amazed that it didn’t smash to pieces which would have really been an incredible waste of energy and patience. All the guys in that video (including me) had no real idea how to cut the thing down (much less move it) and were completely impaired by the time we actually got it tied to a backhoe (borrowed from a nearby construction site). Ironically, the damn thing almost fell on me in which case there would be a much funnier headline : Jamaican who revealed Banksy killed by falling artwork.

So now I have this wall sitting in a garage here in Kingston and the guy who owns the garage is pissed because the back part of his car doesn’t fit into the garage properly anymore (it’s a very small garage). I was going to put it on display at Miami Art Basel this year but then it occurred to me that it would cost about 10k to ship over there and I really wouldn’t know what to tell customs as a value price…so instead, I’m not going to sell it. Instead I’m selling the photographs of the excavation on EBAY and giving the wall away to whoever buys the set. Since it has no declared value, you can get it out of here at the estimated value cost of $0.01 and then hoist it onto your wall at your mansion and have a big party with lots of coked-up models and invite the BBC.

Posted up the video on Arrested Motion if you are interested.

[evilchoy]

what a shitastic photo haha found a workaround from the curse word ban!

[xpc]

Anyone who's a fan of Banksy should give this piece a wide berth.

[evilchoy]

like the plague....I second that

[StephenW]

Good thing Pest Control is not providing any provenance for street pieces. If they were created on the street, they should definitely stay out in there in their original element, not be taken down for the purpose of reselling. I'm hoping that potential buyers will take that to heart. It'll be interesting to see if any non-authenticated pieces like this one actually sell.

[sleepboy]

These have been floating around recently but are they new? I always liked this series where he took the classics and twisted them.

[comiconart]

I believe they are all old. I know the top one (or one almost identical to it) was featured in the book "Wall and Piece".

[dellboyy]

They're all from his crude oils show in 2005, you can see more pics here:

www.artofthestate.co.uk/banksy/Banksy_crude_oils_photos_001.htm

[sleepboy]

Dec 11, 2008 2:47:53 GMT -8 dellboyy said:

They're all from his crude oils show in 2005, you can see more pics here:

www.artofthestate.co.uk/banksy/Banksy_crude_oils_photos_001.htm

Thanks man. Looks like there are some other cool ones too.

[dellboyy]

Yeah i really liked that series... shame he hasn't done anything similar recently!

[sleepboy]

Hard to tell with Banksy but this is probably a company using his imagery for their ad.... or is it? Went up recently in London.

[wallakndy]

Nothing to do with banksy.

Company Profile

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[sleepboy]

so this is a confirmed fake? not banksy and this company working together or banksy taking their logo and twisting it?

[steveinca]

If i had to guess i'd say that Banksy did that piece. The bank has nothing to do with Banksy, but it seems like an authentic Banksy piece........then again who knows.

[StephenW]

Definitely an advertising campaign/viral marketing tactic. I'd say it's working, as we're discussing it here.

The reason I don't think it's a Banksy is that the gorilla doesn't have that "Banksy stencil" feel. Simply looks like someone took an image in photoshop, played with the tones a bit and decided it was good enough. Weak execution.