#Banksy artwork self-shreds

[punks-never-die205]

I mentioned before that Krista is an art geek and I imagine her trying to explain the story of the Banksy piece “Love in the Bin” to the crew.

For anyone who doesn’t know, Banksy is an English street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain a secret and well known for his satirical street art.

The painting, originally named “Girl with Balloon” was put up for auction and sold for £1,042,00. But what no one knew is that Banksy installed a shredder in the frame of the painting, and just as the gavel dropped Banksy, who people speculate was probably in the audience at the time, turned on the shredder and started shredding the painting. The workers at the auction managed to turn off the shredder halfway through and the person who bought the painting agreed to still pay for it and was renamed to “Love in the Bin”.

Sotheby's, the corporation that sold the painting, said the painting was "the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction."; and lot of people agree that the self-destruction ended up increasing the painting’s price.

I just imagine Kris explaining all of this to the Kid Pirates, and everyone is just staring at her, until someone breaks the silence and says “Art people are weird as shit.”

That image is just funny to me 😆, also here is the before and after of the painting.

I feel like the big four would become huge fans of Banksy though.

xD Even if art people are weird as shit.

[kenwoody1701]

Title: Night Vision Horses

Artist: Banksy

Banksy's true identity remains a mystery. Despite numerous theories and speculation, the artist has managed to keep his personal identity hidden, allowing his artwork to speak for itself.

Banksy's works are often politically charged. He uses his art to comment on societal issues such as war, capitalism, hypocrisy, and inequality. One of his most famous pieces, "Balloon Girl," was used in 2015 as an emblem of the Syrian people's struggle.

In 2015, Banksy opened a dystopian theme park called "Dismaland" in Weston-super-Mare, UK. The park, described as a "bemusement park," was a dark twist on Disneyland and included works from Banksy and other artists.

In 2018, Banksy caused a stir in the art world when one of his pieces self-destructed after being sold at auction. The artwork, "Girl With Balloon," was shredded by a device hidden in the frame immediately after being sold for more than £1 million at Sotheby's auction house.

In addition to being a renowned street artist, Banksy directed a 2010 documentary film titled "Exit Through the Gift Shop." The film, which tells the story of a French immigrant in Los Angeles who is obsessed with street art, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

Did the way you think about the art change from the first time you looked at it? Do you see anything different in the art now?

 As you know from the beginning I said that I like to race and coincidentally the art has a car and next to it is a horse. It can not make me think of something else and the only thing I was guessing is, the horsepower I sound a little funny right but that's what I think when I first saw it. And after looking up some research I know that Banksy's use of horses, a symbol of freedom and power, wearing night vision goggles could be interpreted as a commentary on how war and technology can distort and manipulate natural forces. His inclusion of armed men and Greek gods might suggest a comparison between ancient and modern forms of power and conflict.

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Banksy's half-shredded artwork is on sale again — and it may fetch millions more this time

Banksy’s half-shredded artwork is on sale again — and it may fetch millions more this time

A Banksy artwork that sensationally self-shredded just after it sold for $1.4 million is up for sale again — at several times the previous price.  Auctioneer Sotheby’s said Friday that “Love is in the Bin” will be offered at a sale in London on Oct. 14. The piece has a pre-sale estimate of 4 million to 6 million pounds ($5.5 million to $8.3 million). “Love is in the Bin,” an artwork by Banksy,…

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Banksy artwork self-shreds seconds after being sold at auction for more than $1 million

Banksy artwork self-shreds seconds after being sold at auction for more than $1 million

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[blueiscoool]

Banksy's Shredded Painting 'Love is in the Bin' Sells For $25.4 million

The Banksy painting that partially self-destructed at auction three years ago has sold once more, for a staggering £18.5 million ($25.4 million).

The new auction for "Love is in the Bin" took place at Sotheby's Contemporary Art evening sale in London on Thursday and became the artist's record, topping the sale of "Game Changer" one year ago. That artwork, which depicted health care workers as superheroes, sold for £16.7 million ($23.1 million) to benefit UK hospitals.

"Love is in the Bin," renamed from "Girl with the Balloon," had a high estimate of £6 million ($8.3 million), six times its previous value of £1 million ($1.4 million). The artwork remains half-shredded in its frame, which concealed a mechanism to auto-destroy it after the hammer dropped at its original sale. Banksy later implied the shredder had malfunctioned, prohibiting the work from turning entirely to scraps.

"It was a big moment because nothing like that had been done before," said art historian, author and co-founder of Artful, Matthew Israel, in a previous email said. The idea of a self-destructing artwork was, he added, "entirely at odds with the aims of the auction house, where the condition of an artwork is paramount and the knowledge and expertise about it is core to its authority and value."

The identity of seller at Thursday's auction has not been revealed, though Sotheby's has described them as a female collector from Europe and a long-standing client of the auction house. The new buyer has the option to pay in cryptocurrency.

A few months after the first auction in 2018, the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden, Germany, became the first public space to display "Love is in the Bin." Ahead of this sale, the painting exhibited in London, Hong Kong, Taipei and New York.

By Jacqui Palumbo.

[emilyrosebass]

10 Years Later: “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist”

The reality TV show that forecasted today’s contemporary art and television landscapes

While the Bravo series only lasted two seasons before its 2011 cancellation, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist is a cultural treasure trove. The show was years ahead of its time—Despite premiering after (and being outshadowed by) big-name reality TV shows like Project Runway and America’s Next Top Model, Work of Art perfectly encapsulated and satirized reality TV and the fine art world while effectually becoming a work of art in itself: A concept so high it wasn’t even recognized or appreciated in its day. 

Each season, fourteen contemporary artists competed through bizarre high-stakes challenges for the chance to win a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum and a cash prize of $100,000. The series, which was produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, was backed by a cast of celebrity judges: actress and model China Chow, mega-famous art critic Jerry Saltz, and gallery owner Bill Powers; joined by Simon de Pury, famed Sotheby’s auctioneer who served as the quirky workroom mentor. 

It’s obvious the show was much more “Next Great Artist” than “Work of Art.” As in, the art wasn’t great, but the contestants were. While a few provocative pieces were exhibited, most of the work was just “eh,” obviously made to fit a prompt. But with glorious irony, the artists themselves emerged as far more captivating than any of the work they produced. 

When the average person lashes out on reality TV, they’re often written off as an actor or attention-seeker. “There’s no way a person would really react this way!” we accuse. But when it’s artists who act larger than life, the bit becomes believable. Countless misconceptions define our image of what an artist is like: A genius, a recluse, a nonconformist. Modeled after personalities like Van Gogh, Kanye, and Poe, artists are stereotyped as quirky, tormented outliers, prone to extreme behaviors and bouts of unrestrainable creativity. We find it believable when artists act eccentrically: It’s part of their creative process.

Work of Art: The Next Great Artist is a striking parody of what we believe artists are. In Work of Art, the most absurd contestants emerge as fan-favorites: A pop artist who calls himself “The Sucklord”; a weirdo performance artist everyone suspects is full of shit; a traditional realist painter who can’t fathom conceptual art; a self-trained artist with a distain for The Academy™️; and (my favorite) an interdisciplinary virtuoso adamant the best ideas came in his sleep, prompting him to stage frequent naps during challenges while others worked around him. 

Work of Art was not designed to reveal the most talented artist, rather, the most interesting characters. The show’s Renaissance man model is outdated; no artist today has to excel in every type of challenge—found-object sculpture, commercial commissions, book cover illustrations, self-portraits and more. Contestants have to race to grab the best materials, struggle through team challenges, and defend their work in front of judges—Environments designed to elevate stress and reveal contestants’ most extreme reactions to pressure. 

Instead of capturing the actual lives and processes of up-and-coming artists, the show captured another aspect of an art world that’s looking more and more like reality TV every day: The high-drama celebrity antics. Today, the art world is all about celebrity and scandal: Who can get into the news for the most bizarre, showy stunt, and who can be the next to outshine him? Rinse and repeat. Most recently, it was Banksy’s painting shredding at auction, then Maurizio Cattelan’s banana at Art Basel, then the hungry banana-munching performance artist who followed him. Each story blew up larger than the last, extending its reach from just art world insiders to household name dinner table fodder, consequentially skyrocketing the artists’ reputations. 

Status is now equated with shock value in the art world on a major scale. The same can be said of reality TV—The genre’s hall of fame is made up of its loudest characters, with big personalities viewers love to latch onto and tear apart. Knowing this, contestants now go on shows with the sole intention of seeking attention, building a platform, and launching a career as an influencer or public figure. But due to the flood of reality TV stars, truly standing out is a skilled craft requiring strategy, complex character building, undetectable acting skills, and business savvy. Succeeding in today’s crowded reality TV influencer market is a form of art. 

I propose Work of Art: The Next Great Artist was actually a work of conceptual art all along, and that its cast and crew designed the show with a nuanced understanding of contemporary culture. 

While it may come off as fluff, Work of Art is actually a striking, poignant text about the relationship between art, reality TV, and celebrity antics (Spoiler alert: They’re all one and the same). Each artist used television as a medium to promote the self as an idea, as a product for consumption—A practice now commonplace in the contemporary art world. They adopted extreme personalities in hopes to outshine eachother with absurd stunts. And in doing so, they created a work of art that was equally emotionally moving and amusing, as all great works of art should be. The show epitomized what reality TV does best and what the art world does best—all the way back in 2010 when nobody could surely predict the trajectory of either medium. 

Reality TV is, and always has been, performance art. But the cast of Work of Art took this to the next level, pushing the bounds of character acting while parodying the very medium they were working in. Despite this, the show was never taken seriously (Surprise surprise, reality TV being written off as frivolous!). I don’t take this as a failing on the show’s design, rather, it’s the kind of meta artwork that’s best appreciated in retrospect. 

Today, as outrageous artist-celebrities and reality TV personalities have both exploded out of control, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist is all the more hilarious—A lighthearted parody of what could be (and what did become). 

[joel-furniss-blog]

Destroying Art

Artwork is centred around creation. The act of making art is exactly that, to make, to bind raw resources both physical and mental and distil them into a finished product. Whether the laying of paint, melding of clay, marking of charcoal, or whatever in between and beyond, art has always been about creating. Originally what was created was something of aesthetical import, something beautiful to excite the senses, but under the progression of society past tradition art was being made that did not excite the eyes but instead flared the mind, the takeover of conceptual art.

The forebearer of conceptual arts lofty goals came in the form of anti-art, a topic I’ve been discussing at length in recent research due to its contextual relevance of my work. Recently I’ve begun questioning my place (if any) in the artworld and the overall pushed notion of the fabled ‘professional artist’ my tutors hold in such high esteem, mainly wondering if that’s a title suited to myself. Perhaps the title of artist isn’t my suit, but rather that of an anti-artist? And if I wish to become the antithesis of an artist, I should not seek to make art, but to destroy it.

I’ve been fascinated with the whim of what could be considered the ultimate artistic subversion for a while now, since last year where I repurposed materials from semester one to continue with in the second semester. The act of reducing my previous work’s sentimental and artistic values to aid my future work as a form of upcycling felt satisfying in an odd way, mainly for its oxymoronic nature. Art is often thought as a culturally sacred ideal, often highly valued (although the work of an art student holds noticeably less value than anything in Sotheby’s) so the act of ruining and repurposing it seems irreverent to the artist who made it and the potential viewer. However, if an artwork remains to the artists who made I, it’s entirely in their right to desecrate, decimate, or otherwise destroy their belongings.

And some artists have indeed done exactly that. Past examples include famous artists often seen as masters of their craft which deem their work unsatisfactory enough to destroy, as an attempt to save themselves the perceived embarrassment of having to display them. Michelangelo, unhappy with his statue The Deposition (1547-55), violently attacked it with a hammer, severing Christ’s leg in the process which remains missing. Claude Monet found many of his revered Water Lily paintings unfit for exhibition and had them demolished, with plans to destroy more before his death. Georgia O’Keefe, before an 80’s solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum, trimmed her catalogue, much like Monet insisting that some were not at her ‘level’.

Examples of artist’s rendering their work inert through repurposing and upscaling is likewise present, typically stemming from a financial lacking. Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist was painted on an already complete canvas, as was Vincent van Gogh’s Patch of Grass, each example theorised as a decision made due to the artist’s inadequate funds at the time, an example of necessary upcycling. Other examples include the covering of minute Easter Eggs, such as Kazimir Malevich’s early Suprematism/monochrome painting which has recently revealed as being painted atop a Cubo-Futurist design featuring the description: ‘Battle of negroes in a dark cave.’, a reference to Alphonse Allais’ all-black comic panel titled similarly, which itself is a reference Paul Bihaud’s also similarly named proto-minimalist painting.

While interesting examples, these all stem not from a need or exploration of destruction, but from the artist’s largest enemy, their ego. Deemed unworthy by the creators themselves in either fits of rage, elderly introspection, monetary restrictions, or simple pride, they dismantled and devalued their own works because of self-defined sense of place as an artist, their own ego holding them to a standard which is literally destructive. I should note however while some injustice is felt from the fact that these works are lost, ultimately, it’s the artist’s opinion and decision, which I personally believe is paramount to an art piece.

Destroying one’s own art for pride’s sake has been done by many artist’s, but what of the opposite, destroying one’s own art for the sake of art itself. As previously stated, doing so would subvert art’s creative power, but now we know it also subverts the source of art’s creative power, the artist’s own ego. Despite art’s relationship with the viewer, which typically decides its value, art can also be viewed as a sole extension of the artist’s self and thus destroying it is a self-destruction, an infanticide of the work or furtherly a suicide of the artist. It’s an interesting theme for its subversive and contradictory aspects, it raises questions about art’s value, the relationship between artist and audience, and the overall place of the artist.

Before I list some important samples of artists destroying their own work, I’d like to briefly highlight some examples of artist destroying the works of other artists, a similarly artistic sacrilege yet lacking the interference of the ego to focus solely on the profane idea of ruining art. A nice example is Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953) when Robert Rauschenberg took a painting from artist friend Willem de Kooning and completely erased every trace of it from the canvas, leaving a mere textured plain with little hints of the paintings past. A more contemporary example is when brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman purchased a mint set of Francisco Goya’s revered Disasters of War prints and ‘rectified’ them via inclusions of clown makeup, cartoonish grins, and Mickey Mouse-esque heads, which many saw as an act of artistic vandalism. While not entirely relevant to the ideas I seek I still hold an appreciation for the bold artistic tactics employed shown, questioning art’s value and role into society and whether the destruction of art is art within itself.

As I’ve drawn examples of artist’s destroying their own work out of status and artist destroying other people’s works out of artistic intention, I’d like to finally broach those artists who subvert the ego through anti-art philosophies and conceptual grounds and display through performance or adjacent recordings. An early example is the task undertaken by American painter John Baldessari in his aptly titled Cremation Project (1970) in which he took a total of 123 paintings made between May 1953 and March 1966 and incinerated them in a crematorium, documenting the whole process through photographs and slides of the works. As a final installation Baldessari baked a small portion of the ash into cookies (which he referred to as ‘corpus wafers’), forged a commemorative bronze plaque dating the ‘birth’ and ‘death’ of the works, and published an affidavit in the San Diego Union newspaper noting the work’s destruction, a sort of artistic obituary. The event itself is not only an example of grand artistic suicide/spectacle but also delves into concepts of morality by using the crematorium as a space/material, but also cycles as seen in the cookies representing cycles of digestion (the paintings and the cremator) and excretion (the ash).

An example close to Baldessari but more contemporary and personal is that of Young British Artist Michael Landy who for his work Break Down (2001). For the ambitious project he catalogued all 7,227 of his worldly belongings including all his food, his clothes, furniture, art materials, his art collection (including works by Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst), books, his car, and even his vital records including his birth certificate and passport. He then organised his possessions into categories and systematically destroyed them all in a two-week period using a reverse-assembly line track in which a series of workers individually shredded, smashed, and crushed them into debris. The process was recorded as part of a documentary and open to the public, attracting 45,000 viewers and ultimately amounting to a six-tonne pile of granulated waste either recycled or sent to landfill and a 300-page book showcasing a full inventory of his belongings. An intentional reaction to consumerist society, the performance also holds some relevance toward my focus as Landy disposed of not only his own physical artworks but also those in his collection, some of which would be considered precious today. It suggests that art is a consumer product like food and clothes, that assigning it a monetary value actually devalues it to a mere product, and not something that incites thought or excites the senses.

An even more recent and largely banal example is when in 2018 a print of street artist Banksy’s Girl With Balloon was presented for auction at Sotheby’s in a suspiciously large frame. Sold for a record sum of £1,042,000, moments after the gavel banged the work began shredding itself using a mechanism built into the frame. Playfully titled a prank by the media, Sotheby’s commented that they had no knowledge of the auto-destruction and championed it as "the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction" while the work was sold for the original price and gained a new-found publicity as a result. With the publicity the work came under scrutiny, and considering the unusual thickness of frame compared to the piece, the unnoticed weight of the shredder, the artwork conveniently halting halfway despite originally rehearsals fully shredding it, and speculation the video recording the event was filmed by someone in Banksy’s circle, it’s easy to see where the conspiracy took root. Given Banksy’s supposed sell-out status I personally choose to believe that he and Sotheby’s were in cahoots around this prank, and if it is true it shows how the destruction of art can be bastardized. As a rebellious act, an extension of taboo and contradictory self-destruction, it loses some validity when its endorsed by one of the most elite establishments in the artworld, its as if the Queen was the manager for the Sex Pistols.

Despite some critique for the subject, I hold an appreciation for all previously discussed works mainly for their sheer contraction ethic. I love contradiction, as a way to goad and reveal root meanings and problems I find it a useful tool and aids my quest for subversion. Destroying artwork is a contradiction, a confusing farce. Why destroy something that took time, effort, and passion for someone to make? But remember that destroying an artwork in itself takes time, effort, and passion as detailed by my examples (and state-sponsorship in one case). I shall continue to experiment with the theory and practice of decimating and destroying art, but I might not take it to the extremes set by Landy.

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Did you hear about Banksy's prank? His work shown here, "Girl with Balloon" sold at Sotheby's on Friday night for £1.04m and when the hammer fell the painting began to self destruct. Shredding the artwork in its frame. . We would love to hear what you think about Banksy's prank. What do you think he is saying about the fine art establishment? What does this say about the art world in general? Do you like it/ hate it? . . . #beautifulbizarremagazine #art #artmagazine #banksy #banksyprank #painting

[helloblarty]

On October 5th, 2018, the upper echelon of high society was caught by surprise as Banksy’s Girl with Red Balloon proceeded to shred itself shortly after being auctioned off for $1.4 million dollars. The ripple of shock through the Sotheby’s crowd was palpable, and confusion soon followed in its wake. As much as ever, the British enigma has proven himself to be expectedly unexpected.  I feel that the reaction of immediate audience of the event accurately reflects the response of the rest of the world, a twisted kaleidoscope of bewilderment, astonishment, and every combination in between. The self-destruction of Girl with Red Balloon serves as a reminder of the wily graffiti artist’s uncanny ability to leave the world speechless and sneak away with the last laugh.

And so comes the questioning. How will this impact the pricing of Banksy’s works? Was this the destruction of one piece or the creation of another? Was this staged? The fact that the event is so fresh in art history is a double-edged sword in answering these questions. On the one hand, some of details and questions can be researched immediately, but on the other, we lose an equally important lens for speculation that only time can provide. 

The economics of art is a finicky and speculative creature. Some experts in the industry predict that the painting’s price has since doubled from its ribbonification. As is popularly quipped, beauty—more accurately, the price of beauty—is in the eye of the beholder. Only, the added stipulation is: what is to be beheld? So far (seeing as very few statements relating to Banksy can be declared with finality), this event can be described as the live creation of a new piece. Sotheby’s itself announced that it was, “the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction.” Banksy further christened the new work as Love Is in the Bin. It was truly a marvel of a metamorphosis, a historic transition from one of Banksy’s most iconic and seasoned series to the birth of a new opus, all within a fraction of a minute.  

But surely, many argue, this must have been rehearsed. After all, would such an esteemed auction house as Sotheby’s be so blindly naïve in letting in submissions? Their screening definitely would have caught the shredding contraption within the frame, and many have pointed out the problematic mechanics of the construction of the frame, which was revealed by the artist on his instagram. Without any statement from both parties addressing the matter, whether or not Sotheby’s was in on the scheme, will remain as much as a mystery as the man (or perhaps even the woman) himself.   

Always one to be five steps ahead of the rest, Banksy excites us with the debut of Love Is in the Bin. As harrowing tensions threaten to unravel upon the global stage, we wait for the politically roguish, spray-can and stencil-wielding Robin Hood to make the next move to make us laugh, cry, and most importantly, think. 

If you have an artist or a specific piece you’d like my take on, comment on this post. See you Saturday!

[miracleterri]

Banksy picture shred video

#BANKSY PICTURE SHRED VIDEO INSTALL#

Almost two weeks after Banksy shared a short video via Instagram confirming that he was behind the shredding of his. Banksy posted a photo of his creation to Instagram in mid-shred. Banksy Video Shows ‘Girl With Balloon’ Shred Stunt Did Not go to Plan. This Guy Noticed Something Doesnt Add Up In Banksys Shredded Painting, Explains Why It Was FAKE Banksy recently shocked the art world when one of his. "In rehearsals it worked every time," Banksy wrote in the video, which indeed showed "Girl With Balloon" taking an impressive one-way ticket to Shredtown U.S.A. The Banksy painting of 'Girl with Balloon' sold for 1.4 million just before it was destroyed by a shredder hidden in the frame. Ugh, is there anything worse for the ego than only reaching 70 percent shred capacity when at least 98 percent could've been hit? Gauche much? Share this video: Banksy's 'Love is in the Bin. That's because, while the artwork was successfully shredded into large chunks by a hidden device within the ornate frame, it didn't shred enough of the artwork. 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. by the artist at the auctioneer Sothebys in London, his portrait of Lenin. In a new video that documents the behind-the-scenes process of preparing his "Girl With Balloon" for self-destruction at Sotheby's earlier this month, Banksy-don't worry, his anonymity remains in the video, for all you art purists out there who don't want to do a simple Google search and ruin that postmodern magic-implies that his plan actually failed in the grander scheme of what he wanted to accomplish. Banksys world-renowned shredded painting, Love is in the Bin, has fetched. Banksy has posted a new video to his website implying the partial shredding of his Girl With Balloon at a London auction was supposed to have been complete. If you are concerned about shredders (or eavesdropping devices) hiding in your art frames, contact us! Our non-invasive sweep tools will let you know if you have anything to worry about.Well, we guess this gives new meaning to the term "director's cut." This time, though, the spies have given up their eavesdropping gear for an espresso machine and tea pot! He shared the picture of painting and wrote, Shredding the Girl and Balloon - the Director’s cut. Banksy took to Instagram to share a video confirming that the move was intentional. No sooner did the gavel come down to mark the sale of Banks. Another anonymous artist (could have been the real Banksy?) created a sort of a copy outside of a tea shop on High Street, also in Cheltenham. New Delhi, Oct 18 (ANI): One of Banksy paintings was shredded just few seconds after it was sold in an auction in London. Art connoisseurs could only watch in horror as an expensive piece was shredded before their eyes. 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. Unfortunately for Banksy lovers, the building was re-done in 2016, destroying the art work. Moments after the artist Banksy’s Balloon Girl painting sold at Sotheby’s Auction House on Friday, Octoin London, a paper shredder hidden in the frame activated and carved. Banksy posted a new video to his website Tuesday implying the partial shredding of his Girl With Balloonat a London auction was supposed to have been complete. His humorous “Spy Booth” in 2014 took advantage of a phone booth and wall mounted satellite dish on Hewlett Road in Cheltenham, England, not far from GCHQ, to show caricatures of government spies monitoring and recording what might be going on inside the booth.

#BANKSY PICTURE SHRED VIDEO INSTALL#

How much easier would it be to install an eavesdropping device, with much less size and weight, into a painting hanging in a corporate office?īanksy is well known for unique, clever, and sometimes controversial street art. A look at what goes inside the frame gives a bit of a picture of the extent of the planning and design of this stunt: a radio receiver, electronic switching, blades, motors, and batteries that lasted for years waiting for the right time to be activated.

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Banksy picture shred video

The "Girl With Balloon" canvas had an estimate of 200,000 to 300,000 when it went up for sale at Sotheby's in London. According to Sotheby's, it is "the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction." Moderner Robin Hood: Schau ber Street-Art-Knstler Banksy. Banksys iconic Love is in the Bin (2018)the version of his beloved Girl with Balloon image that was partially shredded the moment the hammer came down at a Sothebys sale three years agosold at todays marquee evening auction of contemporary art in the very same London salesroom after a 10-minute, nine-way bidding war. The artwork named Love Is In The Bin was sold in London by auction house Sothebys at a Nine Banksy's "Love is in the Bin" is unveiled on October 12, 2018, at Sotheby's in London. Both Sothebys and the artist Banksy himself have denied any collusion in the daring stunt, which has seen the painting, originally titled Girl with Balloon receiving the Auctioneer Sotheby's said Friday that 'Love is in the Bin' will be offered at a sale in London on Oct. Banksy, Girl With Balloon, 2006, Sothebys. It was even voted the UKs favorite artwork in 2017. Love is in the Bin is a 2018 art intervention by Banksy at Sotheby's London, with an unexpected self-destruction of his 2006 painting of Girl with Balloon immediately after it was sold at auction for a record 1,042,000. It soon caused a huge sensation in the art world and aroused many suspicions whether Sotheby's Art Banksy. The hammer went down at 16m, but after the auction house's fee the price was 18,582,000. A rare print of Girl with Balloon with a gold balloon will also be up for auction. Christies auction is titled I cant believe you morons actually buy this shit. El 5 de octubre de 2018, una copia enmarcada hecha en el ao 2006 fue subastada y vendida en Sotheby's por 1,042,000, un rcord para el artista. Moderner Robin Hood: Schau ber Street-Art-Knstler Banksy. Going forward, are we going to question a frame like this? Absolutely.Browse artwork and art for sale by Banksy and discover content, biographical information and recently sold works. “The accusation that we were somehow negligent in the way this was catalogued does not stand up. We also had a third-party conservator look at the work,” he said. “Pest Control said very clearly: The frame is integral to the art work, which it was, just not in the sort of way that we thought. The director of Sotheby’s contemporary art in Europe, Alex Branczik, said much the same in an interview with The Art Newspaper. Some people think the auction house were in on it, they weren’t.” In a post on Instagram linking to the video, Banksy put to rest several rumors surrounding his stunt, saying, “Some people think it didn’t really shred. Recommended: Get a Rare Glimpse of the Royal Family’s Private Rooms at Buckingham Palace Pest Control, Banksy’s official authentication body, issued a new authentication certificate and gave the work a new name, Love Is in the Bin. The client who bought the painting for $1.4 million has announced that she intends to keep the work. Then an alarm goes off and the piece begins to shred, but a jam in the machine prevents the work from being turned entirely into shreds. He then plays a long clip of the auction of the painting in full, cutting to a close-up of someone pushing a switch on a remote just after the sale was finalized. At one point a man who appears to work at Sotheby’s is seen standing in front of the work, telling an onlooker that the artist himself had put the frame on. The video, which Banksy aptly titled Shred the Love, also shows a man in a hoodie installing a shredder into the frame and clips of the painting at various points on the evening of the sale. In a nearly three-minute video posted to the site yesterday, the mischievous street artist shows what’s implied to be a practice run of the shredding in which the painting, or a copy, is completely destroyed, with a caption prefacing the clip that says, “In rehearsals it worked every time.” Just as the buzz around his now-infamous stunt at Sotheby’s on October 5 was beginning to die down, Banksy has taken to YouTube to suggest that he had intended for Girl with Balloon to be shredded completely.

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Banksy picture shred video

See also: Banksy Video Shows How He Rigged Frame With Hidden Shredder The work was purchased by a European art collector. They weren’t.”Ī spokesperson for Sotheby’s has also maintained ignorance, telling CNN in a recent statement that the auction house “had no prior knowledge of this event and were not in any way involved. In the video 'Shredding the Girl and Balloon - The Director's half cut' posted to Banksy's YouTube channel on Wednesday, it is revealed that the shredding mechanism worked perfectly during other. The video displays a message that in rehearsals it worked every time. “Some people think the auction house were in on it. Banksy Video Shows How He Rigged Frame with Hidden Shredder Moments after the artist Banksy’s Balloon Girl painting sold at Sotheby’s Auction House on Friday, Octoin London, a paper. It did,” Banksy posted on Instagram days after the sale. “Some people think it didn’t really shred. REUTERSĪrt experts are still befuddled at the idea that Sotheby’s handlers wouldn’t have detected the shredding device. Banksy’s half-shredded “Girl With Balloon” is returning to Sotheby’s with a valuation of over $8 million - six times the winning bid in 2018, when it was, albeit briefly, an intact painting. The canvas stopped about halfway through the tearing. Yet as soon as the winning bid - $1.4 million - was called, the canvas was quietly prompted to move through what art experts later realized was a shredder installed in the bottom of the frame. Nevertheless, the artwork - now called “Love Is in the Bin” - is expected to fetch $8.3 million, six times its previous price.Īt that Sotheby’s sale, the buyer purchased a fully intact, framed artwork by the notoriously covert street artist, of a girl illustrated in black and white reaching out for a red balloon. This Guy Noticed Something Doesnt Add Up In Banksys Shredded Painting, Explains Why It Was FAKE Banksy recently shocked the art world when one of his. Was Banksy selling artwork for $60 each at an NYC subway station?īanksy art ripped out of building wall by UK landlordīanksy’s notorious “Girl With Balloon,” which shocked spectators in 2018 when it immediately self-shredded upon sale, is on the auction block once again - effectively half the painting it was just before the gavel hit three years ago. “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge,” is a quote by the artist Mikhail Bakunin, but in an Instagram video shared by Banksy along with the video, the artist misattributes it to Picasso.Banksy painting sprayed in West Bank resurfaces in Tel Avivįlorida art dealer allegedly sold bogus Banksys, Basquiats to rich buyers “This is now part of Art History in its shredded state and we’d estimate Banksy has added at a minimum 50 percent to it’s value, possibly as high as being worth £2m+.” “Given the media attention this stunt has received, the lucky buyer would see a great return on the £1.02M they paid last night,” Joey Syer of told the media Saturday. One art world observer says the work’s value would likely increase, despite it being sliced up. The auction price was the highest-ever for a Bansky work.ĭespite the shredded work, Sotheby’s told the press on Friday they were in conversation with the winning bidder about what to do next. A version of the work was auctioned off in 2007 as well, and it’s one of the artist’s most recognizable works and was repurposed to support the Syrian people caught in the middle of a civil war in 2014. “Balloon Girl” originally appeared in 2002 as a graffiti work in the United Kingdom. “It appears we just got Banksy-ed,” Sotheby’s senior director Alex Branczik said in a statement that described the incident as “the first time in auction history that a work of art automatically shredded itself after coming under the hammer.” It wasn’t immediately clear if the half-shred was intentional or a malfunction. Banksy took ownership of the stunt soon after and released a viral video revealing that the work was supposed to shred entirely, but the mechanism malfunctioned during the sale. See also: Did a Bunch of Math Nerds Find Out Banksy’s Real Identity? (2016)Īs the video shows, the shredder only appears to cut half of the painting into ribbons, leaving the little red heart balloon intact. The video shows dozens of blades being placed inside the frame.

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$1,300,000 BANKSY artwork piece just “self-destructed” right after it was sold at Sotheby’s auction!🤯😳 (An alarm sound went off and the frame began to shred the art piece.)🚨 pic.twitter.com/TAsrE9ptIh

— Dan Fleyshman (@DanFleyshman) October 6, 2018

-grimaces- An artist destroying their own art. Such masochism as if it's Schumpeter's gale.

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Banksy’s Self-Destructing Artwork Is The 1 Halloween Costume To Shred Them All

It won’t guarantee your anonymity, though. By Lee Moran

Banksy’s latest stunt has inspired a scary good Halloween costume.

Reddit user MrRicardo paid tribute to the elusive British street artist’s partial shredding of his “Girl With Balloon” painting at Sotheby’s auction house this month with this simple outfit that took just 30 minutes to create:

“My friend needed a last minute Halloween costume,” the Arkansas-based Redditor captioned the snap that he shared online Monday, which is now going viral. “I think I delivered.”

The outfit appears to have only needed a plain white T-shirt, black and red pens, scissors and some imagination.

MrRicardo did not immediately answer HuffPost’s request for further information. Banksy’s publicist also did not immediately respond.

Banksy’s stunt inspired a raft of other costume ideas, some similar

Shredding the Girl and Balloon - The Director’s half cut