London – The famous British street artist known as Banksy confirmed on Tuesday that he was the author of a new work of art on the wall of a building in southwest London, just 24 hours after unveiling another of his graffiti.
In an Instagram post, the artist uploaded a photograph of his creation, which shows two elephants poking their heads out and looking at each other through two boarded-up windows of a building in London’s Chelsea neighborhood.
The graffiti artist, whose identity remains unknown, had already revealed a new painting on Monday in Richmond, also southwest of the British capital, featuring a goat on top of a ledge from which several rocks are falling while a real surveillance camera is pointed at it.
Banksy’s modus operandi is always the same: he uploads a photograph to confirm that he is the author of the painting and leaves the rest to the imagination of his more than twelve million followers, who speculate about whether these two creations are part of a series of “animal” art and whether more will follow in the coming hours and days.
Regarding this latest piece by the Bristol-based artist (southwest England), some on social media suggest that it is a graphic representation of the metaphorical expression of the “elephant in the room”, which refers to an obvious truth that is ignored or goes unnoticed.
As for Monday’s work, the curious people who came to see it after hearing the news interpreted that Banksy, with the mountain goat on the ledge, wanted to represent that the human race is on the verge of extinction or to point out the lack of privacy in public spaces, by placing a closed-circuit camera.
These two works confirm Banksy’s return to his favourite canvas, the streets of London, where he had not acted since last March, when he sprayed green paint on a wall behind a pruned tree, creating the optical illusion of foliage and with a stencil of a person holding a spray bottle next to it.
Banksy is known for raising awareness of social, political and environmental issues through his street art in various parts of the world and his works are highly sought after, reaching tens of millions of euros at auctions. EFE
