![]() The image was chosen above the likes of Constable's Hay Wain and Jack Vettriano's Singing Butler.įeaturing on the shop wall for more than 12 years. The iconic mural was last year voted the nation's favourite artwork. The girl depicts a Syrian refugee, an imagery which Banksy uses many times in his murals. It features just two simple shapes, with the statement: 'There is always hope'. The imagery was first spotted on the wall of a shop in 2002, in Great Eastern Street, east London. Girl With Balloon is one of graffiti artist Banksy's most famous murals. In the interview, the Bristol artist is said to have quoted Mikhail Bakunin, telling flagship news presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy: 'The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.' The artist also dropped a strong hint that he was behind the shredding of his iconic artwork in an interview with Channel 4. The man who is believed to be the person who shot the video that Banksy uploaded bears a strong resemblance to Robin Gunningham who has previously been named as the elusive artist. However he may have inadvertently helped to reveal his own identity because other people filming the scene caught him on camera. ![]() He explains: 'A few years ago I secretly built a shredder into a painting in case it was ever put up for auction.' In it, he is seen building the shredder, which he said is operated by a remote device.įootage showing the shocking moment the shredder whirred into life at Sotherby's is also included in the video. Do you really think Banksy, who spent his youth stencilling walls in Bristol and dodging the local authorities, would want to collaborate with the art establishment? Come on, you should all know better that.īranczik then extended an invitation for the public to see the half-shredded painting in person at Sotheby’s this weekend.The clip posted by Banksy on Instagram, which he deleted shortly after, showed how he fitted a shredder that was controlled by a remote device This is the newly titled Love Is In the Bin, 2018. Banksy didn’t destroy an artwork during our Evening sale last week he created one. ![]() Let’s end the speculation and crazy conspiracy stories. Sotheby’s contemporary specialist Alex Branczik wrote in a recent Instagram post: Many have assumed Sotheby’s was in on the ruse, although the auction house has steadfastly denied any involvement. When the winning bid came down, an alarm sounded and the painting slid halfway through an automatic shredder that the artist had surreptitiously built into the frame. Video of the self-destructing work immediately went viral online. (One enterprising collector even went ahead and shredded his own Banksy print in a misguided effort to cash in on the buzz.) to 5 p.m.).Ī post shared by Sotheby's has been made of the fact that the seemingly destructive act may have, in fact, increased the value of the work significantly. The newly re-christened painting will go on public view at Sotheby’s New Bond Street galleries in London this weekend (Saturday and Sunday from 12 p.m. Sotheby’s, for its part, is making the most of its publicity coup, describing the work-which spontaneously shredded in the middle of the auction room as soon as the gavel came down-as “the first work in history ever created during a live auction.” (It is currently unclear which came first: the collector’s decision to keep the work or Banksy’s decision to re-authenticate and rename it.) “When the hammer came down last week and the work was shredded, I was at first shocked, but gradually I began to realize that I would end up with my own piece of art history,” the anonymous collector said in a statement.īanksy has in turn agreed to “re-authenticate” the piece with a new title, Love Is in the Bin (2018). Sotheby’s has revealed that the winning bidder of the artist’s Girl with Balloon, described as a “female European collector” and a “longstanding client” who shelled out $1.4 million for the work last Friday, has decided to keep it in its shredded form after a week of negotiations. Banksy’s self-destructing painting saga has entered its next chapter.
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