What is going on with all this continuing Banksy mural obliteration (is it Banksyside?). Yet another well known mural is painted over and this time a valued £200,000 Banksy work goes the way of the pear. This time though nobody wants to own up to it as it’s starting to look like we have a higher percentage of uneducated jobs worths per square inch than any other nation on Earth. This one had been painted on the wall of the White Cube gallery in Hoxton, East London which should know its modern art but someone there clearly doesn’t. Ironically the piece was titled Sweep it under the carpet which I’m sure the gallery will try to. How long before people are painting over artwork inside art galleries in order to reclaim precious wallspace?
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Another Banksy bites the dust « Stuffem-Up the hill backwards
Graffiti artists expect their work to be removed, painted over or defaced by other “artists”. Fragility goes with the territory as it does with ice and sand sculpture.
The only difference between Banksy and the thousands of other graffiti “artists” producing sometimes beautiful but more often simply awful “artworks” is that he is artistically a cut above the average and has, by one of the strange quirks of fortune, found a place in the hearts of an inartistic public. It is this, and the notoriety of working in a “forbidden” field, that “sells” (quite literally) Banksy’s art works, not pure artistic talent alone.
Is it sad when a Banky is washed away or destroyed? I am not sure it is. That was always going to be its destiny, a fact of which the artist was perfectly aware. Vulnerability is part of the appeal. It is the painting that is saved that is the anomaly, not the one that is destroyed. Banksy could have taken the conventional path but instead has chosen to be a “guerrilla artist” with all the consequences that flow from that.
I think that when we bemoan the destruction of a Banksy painting we are actually missing the point. Maybe we should even go along and take part in the process of destruction, celebrating both the art work and its disappearance back into the ideal dimension from which it emerged.
A political party is abusing the design of the wellknown UK Banksy collective for political ends… The news was reported by the Belgian blog ‘De Jager‘.
The news is now also on Digg.com
All this is totaly new for me, but silver tiger sounds right when he is saying that the destruction can be seen as a next step in the story of this artwork. You are right Silver tiger, you should celebrate the destruction of it, cause it`s part of the artwork! And only besides: you feel much better celebrating someting instead of being sad about it
this is a amazing peice of art very good
i don’t think banksy would be bothered by it and anyways if no one painted over graffiti there wud be no clean walls left to paint. other gaffiti artist paint over other graffiti thats just part of the game.