The actual device looks more like a conventional shredder mechanism. It gives a much better look at the hidden mechanism than the previous clip (images of knife blades, placed lateral to the frame, had provoked questions about whether such a set-up would actually work. Banksy has posted a video to his website in which he implies the shredding of his million-pound artwork Girl with Balloon at a Sotheby’s auction in London was supposed to have been complete. This was later confirmed by his agents ‘Pest Control’. The 'Girl with Balloon' painting by artist and prankster Banksy appeared to self-destruct after selling for 1.4 million at a Sotheby's auction in London. The film opens to the sounds of power tools, the shredder being carefully secreted within the frame. From the video above, it appears that Banksy himself or an agent of the man himself, may have been at auction and pressed the button to start the process. “Some people think the auction house were in on it. The work was meant to be completely destroyed. “Some people think it didn’t really shred. The mechanism that cut apart the 1.4 million Girl With Balloon jammed, the artist revealed in a video. In a nearly three-minute video posted to the site yesterday, the mischievous street artist shows. The renowned street artist Banksy has released a video suggesting that the shredding of Balloon Girl didnt go as. Today, he posted a new video to his website titled “Shred the Love,” billed on Instagram as a “director’s cut” to “Shredding the Girl With Balloon.” Banksy sent the art world into a frenzy when his Girl With a Balloon artwork self-destructed after being sold for 1.4 million USD at Sotheby’s.The newly-titled Love Is In The Bin piece has now. Just as the buzz around his now-infamous stunt at Sotheby’s on October 5 was beginning to die down, Banksy has taken to YouTube to suggest that he had intended for Girl with Balloon to be shredded completely. Banksy says Balloon Girl stunt went wrong. (We can’t either! But only because you can’t stop reading about it! It’s a vicious cycle.)Ī week and a half after the stunt, the anonymous street artist is continuing to fuel the fire. I think Banksy is ultimately a performance artist and he’s doing a lot to stretch and expand what that means in popular culture.The art world can’t stop talking about Banksy’s latest prank, shredding one of his own artworks moments after it hammered down for $1.3 million at Sotheby’s London.
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“It just seemed like a very fitting conclusion. BANKSY must have been gutted, not only did the full shred not work but it promptly increased in value, dont think he meant that to happen. “I still think Banksy is a famous artist not without reason, and I would definitely not call my theory “facts” at this point,” he told us. “I’m also a magician, and when I started looking at it as a performance rather than documentation, that’s when it clicked.”īeing an artist himself, specializing in metal sculpture and modernized ‘art nouveau’ style wrought iron, Josh can appreciate the brilliance of Banksy, even if he’s not convinced by this particular stunt. I re-watched Banksy’s artwork getting shredded several times and looked at stills, and it just didn’t make sense as a machine designed to shred a painting.” “I’m a maker, so the way it was presented as being constructed struck a sour note with me. Street artist Banksy has posted a new video about the shredding of his famous Girl With Balloon painting, implying that it was supposed to have been completely destroyed in the stunt. “What piqued my interest was the appearance of the device in his video,” Josh explained to Bored Panda. read, Some people think it didn’t really shred. to the strange and ongoing story of Banksy’s Girl With Balloon. Presenting his theory with impressive attention to detail, his arguments about something being fishy with the accepted version of events certainly carry some weight. Banksy released a 'director's cut' video about Girl With Balloon. Josh Gilbert, an artist and blacksmith from Chicago, has some serious doubts. But was all really as it seemed? Was this wanton act of self-destruction the ultimate expression of anarchy and a troll of epic proportions, or actually a calculated and cynical scam to gain publicity and increase the value of his famous paintings?
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