Banksy, the most expensive street artist in the world – 12.2 million francs for his “Monkey Parliament” sold at auction in October 2019 – has found a new playground to match his irony: his toilets! Confinement requires, the Briton (this is almost the only reliable information about the artist on track since 1999 with a first stencil on a Bristol wall) let his verve run between the toilet seat, the walls, the linen holders. Finally … it is rather completely crazy and out of control rats which, sacrilege, even dare to waste the PQ, this daily good become among the most precious, that he let invade space. With a comment accompanying the posts on his social networks: “My wife hates when I work at home.”
Here trapeze artists and acrobats completely punks – not to mention the one who frees himself on the toilet seat – rats have been part of the street artist’s universe for a long time. He swarmed them on the walls, in a tuxedo on a red carpet, in padlock breakers, in anarchists, so in… alter ego of graffiti artists. “In his book” Banksy, Wall and Piece “, the artist, recalls the online magazine” Graffmag “, explains that one day someone told him that it was smart to paint the rat, an art anagram . Rats are hated, hunted, persecuted. The graffiti artists are somewhat similar. ”
Beyond that, would Banksy, the most mysterious but also the most media of street artists, deliver in this work of confinement some intimate clues? First of all, its bathroom, which, if it has become a work of art that collectors would tear themselves away from, is far from being a model of modernity! Then his wife? Art investigators, profilers, fans tirelessly trying to unmask him – some thought of British artist Damien Hirst, others of group leader Massive Attack, Robert del Naja, who was often in concert where a Banksy work arose – maybe have a new track…
Created: 04.17.2020, 5:14 p.m.
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