With a picture in the London Zoo representing a gorilla freeing other captive animals, the graffiti artist Banksy concluded, on Tuesday, a series of unusual works related to animals, which he published in nine days on the streets of the British capital.
Since August 5, Banksy has continued to show works every day in one of the city’s neighborhoods, one of which represents, for example, an elephant, another pelican, and a third fish, which has caused much speculation to raise, as this is unusual for the secretive British. street artist, who usually completes his murals with a time difference estimated in weeks or even months.
As is his custom, Banksy posted on his Instagram account the ninth work of this kind, which represents a gorilla lifting a piece of tarpaulin, drawn on a metal curtain at the entrance of the London Zoo, and birds and a sea lion appear to emerge from under the cloth as if they were escaping from the park that there are more than ten thousand animals, and in the darkness under the cloth it seems that two eyes separating.
Dr Sharmila Darren, 50, who was visiting the zoo from the north-east of England, said her husband believes the picture represents “animal liberation”.
This work appeared to explain the origin of animals in previous works this week, and the BBC expected this picture to mark the end of the animal-related work. , which started with a picture of a goat on a wall in Richmond on the west side. London.
The work, released by Banksy on Monday, showed a painted rhino climbing an abandoned car in a vacant lot.
These works raised several theories about the message that the artist, who is committed to issues such as the protection of refugees or the fate of the Palestinians, wanted to convey. Witnesses who spoke in front of several of the these works suggest that their aim is to raise the climate crisis, the ongoing war in Gaza, or the recent right-wing riots in the UK.
However, The Observer newspaper which was published on Sunday believed that the aim of that operation was to raise public confidence, through the elements of surprise and entertainment.
While some of Banksy’s works have sold for millions of euros at auctions, some of the works in this series have been stolen, removed or damaged.
London Zoo promised to protect the work that appeared within its scope, according to what Carl Penman, one of its officials, explained.
