Banksy C/D

that’s nickn told

if you say so, but I was more responding to comments elsewhere - but talking to myself.

Surely the auction house were in on it? I assume pieces are checked before auction and they would spot a shredder in the frame.

he's so insipid and worthless and overexposed, the arsehole makes want to love capitalism. Yeah I wouldn't imagine an auction house would be risking pissing off or getting into litigation with the type of customer who can write a million quid cheque.

If anything, this stunt proves, for the nth time, that capitalism sublates any and all artistic resistance, especially when it's social-mediatised. Said work is now worth more $$$ than ever.

I guess it's worth more rather than less now, so the buyer is probably very happy about it all and capitalism triumphs.

Or, what pomenitul says, though I'm not sure about how much of an act of artistic resistance this really is.

don't really associate "artistic" with Banky tbh

Eh, denying him the label is just wishful thinking. No true Scotsman, etc.

as a technical descriptor of the field in which he works, ok. but really i was just saying his entire oeuvre is fucking shit.

it was ok in the old days when you walked round london and sometimes there was suddenly a mildly funny picture on an old wall: there was a little girl blowing bubbles near me for a while

the old days when we thought boney was going to invade any day

real makes-you-think subversive Boney at the base of Nelson's column

he's no mr blobby

wouldn't be surprised if mr blobby turned up at the Lloyds Banking Group plc hq, strapped with a suicide vest!

Will hard Brexit stop this?

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lolll

someone payed 1.4m for a stencil of clip art

https://medium.com/@electrolemon/the-year-of-living-with-banksy-f9e1774ec60b

The logistics of the timing of the shred are bizarre, unless the auction house was in on it. B would have to have communication with the frame remotely and then trigger it at the right time. Anyone know how this could be done? The connection would have had to have been through a cell network unless B was in the auction room to trigger through Bluetooth or WiFi

Easily achievable at lower tech levels than that, something like a car fob or even a TV remote could have been used as a trigger.

If a powered shredder the difficulty of a 12 year old battery used to power it is the biggest hurdle. The easiest way to achieve it thought would have been for the painting to have been held above some kind of clockwork/kinetic shredder under tension and the initiation was just to remove whatever pin etc was holding it in place.

There's also a world of things that can be done with old indestructible Nokia basic phones, since sitting passively they have a battery life of decades. Text message to the phone with a tap off the vibrate circuit will give you a control signal you can use as a trigger, for example.

*not actual decades but a very very long time.

He’d have to be in the room for a tv remote or car fob to work, so I guess it’d have to be a modified cell phone device inside. Imagine B sitting at home watching the auction online and then sending that text when it sold

The auction house said on the day they had detained someone they suspected of being involved in tampering with sale and using "a device" during the auction.

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/coyoteacme-1280x600.jpg

New “directors cut” of the shredding video suggests that B was in the room and that the work was meant to shred completely and not stop midway

bungly more like

I mean once this guy’s cover is blown (which he seems to be willingly creeping closer to) the excitement is kind of over right

He becomes “just another” talented street artist

i imagine he's bored out of his mind

it doesn't come across in his work

He’s better than the guy who tags “petco” all over the place

small differences

I feel like i see “petco” spraypainted somewhere every tome i turn around. It never goes beyong the word. petco.

petco

Someone has sprayed "Jesus Saves..." on apparently every street corner in Cambridge. I have started wondering about the ellipsis, is there a punchline I'm supposed to be adding here? I'm sure there was something along these lines in one of those Nigel Rees books.

Relevant of course because Banksy is Nigel Rees

if somebody started doing parody versions of Banksy, nobody would tell the difference.. aaargh... I've just been tethered to an evil balloon that has a benign smiley face on one side and is labelled "capitalism (very bad)" on the other, and it's taking me away.. Oh at least now I understand the complex dualism of his imagery and was made to think.

it was an old painting... his stuff did resonate in the 00s... also I thought Bansky's identity was already uncovered? even if it shredded all the way it still would've doubled in value or whatever. Banksy is smart enough to anticipate that right?

The correct punchline for "Jesus Saves..." is "But (insert footballer of your choice) scores from the rebound"

See also Banky's seminal work "Philosophy degrees: Please take one"

back when he was still good bungly would have placed a text to be revealed behind the painting being destroyed viz: "the shredder is capitalism DO YOU SEE and so is the shredder not working properly DO YOU ALSO SEE"

if he had got his NVQ level II diploma in trenchant social commentary he wouldn't do stuff like that. but trust fund brats don't need college when are born with Street Knowledge!

I'm struggling to think of undiluted instances of anti-capitalist art aimed at a mass audience.

all Art is anti-capitalist DO YOU SEE?

i now have "Banky" to the tune of "Mumfie" stuck in my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLykfjzj1sg

did we ever get to the bottom of whether banksy is 3d from massive attack btw