A goat, two elephants and three monkeys: this is Banksy’s new ‘zoo’ in London

Madrid

Three works on three consecutive days, and all three with wild animals in the heart of London: a mountain goat on the edge of a cliff, two elephants playing with their trunks inside a block of flats and three monkeys jumping under a bridge. The famous British urban artist known as Banksy has already confirmed that he has his small ‘zoo’ in London.

The graffiti artist, who has no identity, published the first image of his new paintings in Richmond, south-west of the British capital, with a goat on top of a slab from which several rocks ‘ fall while a royal surveillance camera is pointing at her.

He posted another picture on Tuesday showing two elephants raising their heads and looking at each other through two boarded up windows in a building in the Chelsea area of ​​London.

How should the jobs be explained?

This Wednesday came the third picture in a row, with three monkeys jumping – as if they were jumping through the branches of a tree – under a bridge on which an urban train runs, in the east of London.

Banksy’s ‘modus operandi’ is always the same: he uploads a picture to prove that he is the author of the picture and leaves the rest to the imagination of more than twelve million people to follow, which considers whether these creations are part of an “animal” art series and whether more will follow in the hours and days to come.

On social media, for example, some suggest that the elephant picture represents a metaphorical expression “elephant in the room”, which refers to an obvious fact that is ignored or not noticing Regarding this Monday’s work, there are those who believe that the mountain goat represents the extinction of the human race, or that it signifies a lack of privacy in public places because it very close to a closed circuit camera.

These three works confirm that Banksy returned to his favorite canvas, the streets of London, where he has not played since last March, when he splashed green paint on a wall, behind a cut tree, creating an optical illusion of a leaf and with a template of a person holding a sprayer next to it.

Banksy is known for defending social, political and environmental problems through his street art in different parts of the world and his works are in high demand, reaching tens of millions of euros at auction