i was offended when westminster said my painting was an advertisement. advertising makes people feel inadequate and worthless. graffiti doesn't do that. graffiti doesn't emotionally blackmail you, graffiti doesn't make you feel fat and graffiti doesn't make you rush out and buy things, except maybe high strength cleaning products.
completamente!
estou profundamente pesarosa em saber que banksy permitiu que a grandona colossal media, focada em publicidade externa tipo outdoors, reproduza suas criações por toda nova york.
ficarei especialmente raivosa se souber que ele tá tirando um troco com isso.
e no flickr surge o grupo banksy does new orleans, com vários dos stencils que nosso herói espalhou pela cidade.
um dia você acorda e descobre que a fachada da sua casa foi regalada com um banksy. o que você faria? digo, o que você faria para protegê-la de ações como a do prefeito kassab em são paulo ou do fucking gray ghost?!
é por isso que, pelo menos em nova orleans, banksy resolveu desafiar o tacanha ghost: para proteger os fracos e oprimidos proprietários de muros banksy - e cidadãos de nova orleans em geral - contra o tosco rolinho de tinta cinza. é uma batalha bastante emblemática, embora assimétrica: a potência de criação versus a assepsia neurótica da ordem puritana; anarquia versus conservatismo; subversão versus lei; autonomia versus rebanho de ovelhinhas torpes. como se vê, não é king-kong verus godzilla, não é meias vivarina contra facas ginso: é o mágico de oz versus dilbert! é hakim bey versus paulo francis! é desproporcional, quer a tinta cinza prevaleça ou não!
a arte é à prova de broxa!
com sua identidade explanada, banksy decidiu ir a um pico chamado big easy para enfrentar aquele que personifica seus arquiinimigos do pincel cinza: fred "the gray ghost" radtke, que ganhou a simpatia dos policiais locais por cobrir arte de rua. disse banksy:
i came to new orleans to do battle with the gray ghost, a notorious vigilante who's been systematically painting over any graffiti he can find with the same shade of grey paint since 1997. consequently he's done more damage to the culture of the city than any section five hurricane could ever hope to achieve.
urrúl.
fotos das homenagens de banksy para radtke e outros detalhes no animal new york.
o daily mail acredita que sim:
since banksy made his name with his trademark stencil-style 'guerrilla' art in public spaces - on walls in london, brighton, bristol and even on the west bank barrier separating israelis and palestinians - his works have sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds.
(...)but perhaps his most provocative statement, and the one that generates the most publicity, is the fact that banksy's true identity has always been a jealously guarded secret, known to only a handful of trusted friends.
a network of myths has grown up around him. that his real name is robin banks. that he used to be a butcher. that his parents don't know what he does, believing him to be an unusually successful painter and decorator.
then there's the suggestion that banksy is actually a collective of artists and doesn't exist at all.
such is the curiosity about banksy that when the great man threw a pizza box into a bin in los angeles, the box resurfaced on auction site ebay, with the seller suggesting that the few anchovies left inside might yield traces of his dna.
he is the scarlet pimpernel of modern art, so adept at leaving false trails that even his own agent has claimed that he is not certain of his identity.
indeed, trying to establish just who the elusive banksy is has proved as difficult as predicting the location of his next work.
but now, after an exhaustive year-long investigation in which we have spoken to dozens of friends, former colleagues, enemies, flatmates and members of banksy's close family, the mail on sunday has come as close as anyone possibly can to revealing his identity.
mas não sei, imprensa inglesa é fina pra hoax.
a investigação toda aqui.
