Image Source: Banksy’s dropped a new piece in central London (corner of Cleveland Street and Clipstone Street to be precise). It’s been speculated that the painting was created in reaction to the recent arrests of fellow street artists, Invader and Revok, in Los Angeles. Via:
L’insaisissable Banksy a récemment proposé plusieurs de ses oeuvres lors d’une installation à l’ouverture de l’exposition “Art in the streets” du MOCA de Los Angeles. Toujours ingénieux et en relation constante avec la société occidentale et sa vision du monde.
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Une collaboration inédite pour le générique des épisodes de la série animée “The Simpsons”, avec le très réputé artiste de street-art anglais Banksy. Un storyboard osé et une direction axé sur le merchandising, pour cette série TV créée par Matt Groening. A découvrir dans la suite.
Humorous and provocative, the much-anticipated film Exit Through the Gift Shop by the U.K.’s leading street artist Banksy is impressively on par with his captivating artworks. After its surprise premiere at Sundance last year, the well-edited movie opens in select cities across the U.S. on 16 April 2010.
Don’t expect to watch a revelatory documentary on the elusive British artist. Instead, the film revolves around French-born L.A. resident Thierry Guetta, or Mr. Brainwash— an obsessive vintage store owner whose preoccupation with filming street artists in the late ’90s led him to a chance friendship with Banksy through the equally legendary street artist Shepard Fairey.
In an exclusive interview Fairey discussed with CH how his relationship with Guetta has changed since his breakthrough show in L.A., which Fairey subsequently criticized. “I think it’s important to be honest, because I know he respects me and I’m not just a hater. I think he has potential to evolve into a good artist if he takes some of this constructive criticism to heart. He came out with a big bang without the same sort of period of gestation that other artists have. It’s not an open and closed thing. Everyone has the potential to evolve if they work at it.”
Much of the film’s footage comes from Guetta, who was planning on creating his own documentary chronicling the history of graffiti. From accompanying Fairey and Guetta’s cousin Space Invader as they put up their pieces in the middle of the night to becoming Banksy’s right-hand man in L.A. and helping him pull off the infamous stunt at Disneyland, Guetta filmed it all. When Banksy saw the finished film, however, he took all 10,000 hours of footage, re-edited it, and shifted the focus on Guetta himself.
In his typical extreme style, Guetta set about mounting a show as loud and hyped—if not more, even—than Banksy’s own “Barely Legal” in the abandoned CBS Studios in L.A. in 2008, propelling him into the spotlight overnight.
Most of the film’s commentary is by Fairey and Banksy himself, who discuss Guetta’s artistic merit in a dry manner. Without spoiling the ending, we will tell you that there is a twisted conclusion about street art as a whole that will have you contemplating the medium for days.
Fairey, whose new show “May Day” opens at Deitch Projects 1 May 2010, explains “People now look at street art as a legitimate form of expression and a good way to get attention. Even if the artwork is pointless, the medium is still a pretty powerful message.”
Los Angeles, NYC, San Francisco, Berkeley and Palo Alto will see the film first, followed by Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and Seattle on 23 April 2010. Check banksyfilm.com for dates in other cities.
Famed street artist Banksy stars in this new documentary, a collaboration with Terry Guetta (aka Mr. Brain Wash), called “Exit Through The Gift Shop.” We had the chance to check out the film, a result of unprecedented access to the artist over the last ten years, and loved the new insight into Banksy’s work, as well as learning how it evolved from street art to collective works.
The new trailer, linked by Good, looks at the strange relationship between these two artists in greater detail. Exit Through The Gift Shop premieres 16 April 2010 in New York and other select cities. Visit the site for the full schedule and locations.
Rumor is that Bansky will premier his first movie at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah that will be going down soon. For more on the film go here.
Images from Treehugger
Last week four new Banksy creations found at the Regent’s Canal lit up the blogosphere. One of the pieces (seen above) was of a man painting over graffiti. As Treehugger points out Banksy painted over a fellow artist’s work, a sprayer by the name of King Robbo. Robbo’s piece had been standing unharmed since 1985. In response King Robbo covered up Banksy’s work with 3 foot high silver letters spelling his name.
Original King Robbo piece:
Banksy cover-up:
King Robbo strikes back:
From Timesonline:
According to graffiti folklore this spat is not the first disagreement between Banksy and King Robbo. The 1980s pioneering vandal recounted a story in London Handstyles, a book on graffiti published in 2009, in which he claimed to have confronted the now-famous artist.
“I was out one night with a load of old writers and got introduced to Banksy,” King Robbo said. “He asked what I wrote and I told him, he cockily replied ”never heard of you” so I slapped him and said, ”You may not of heard of me but you will never forget me.’”
Voici “Global Warming”, les nouveaux travaux de l’artiste de street-art le plus connu du monde : Banksy. Originaire de Bristol au Royaume-Uni, il combine les techniques du graffiti et du pochoir pour faire passer ses messages entre slogans politiques, humour et poésie. Exemples dans la suite.
Plus d’images de son travail dans la galerie / Son site officiel.
We stumbled upon new work by renowned street artist Bansky and felt the piece above was relevant given the COP15 conference that just went down earlier this month. The piece is appropriately named “I don’t believe in Global Warming”
Banksy the UK-based graffiti artist sits down (face to face)? with LA-based graffiti artist Shepard Fairey and shares a few words on his art, his anonymity and much more. We’ve included an excerpt from the interview published by Swindle Magazine.
How long are you going to remain anonymous, working through the medium itself and through your agent as a voice for you?
B: I have no interest in ever coming out. I figure there are enough self-opinionated assholes trying to get their ugly little faces in front of you as it is. You ask a lot of kids today what they want to be when they grow up, and they say, “I want to be famous.” You ask them for what reason and they don’t know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes….
Go here to read the full interview.
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