![]() ![]() This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. His "Girl With Balloon" was originally stenciled on a wall in east London and has been endlessly reproduced, becoming one of Banksy's best-known images.Ĭopyright 2018 The Associated Press. His mischievous and often satirical images include two policemen kissing, armed riot police with yellow smiley faces and a chimpanzee with a sign bearing the words, "Laugh now, but one day I'll be in charge." He began his career spray-painting buildings in Bristol, England, and has become one of the world's best-known artists. Banksy released a new video offering a behind-the-scenes look at how he rigged the frame. The nearly three-minute long video is titled Shred the Love, the Director’s cut. The auction and partial shredding are shown, as is the work being taken off the wall at Sotheby's and carried out of the room.īanksy has never disclosed his full identity. ![]() The painting was auctioned off for 850 000 pounds sterling. People milling about sipping Champagne and nibbling hors d'oeuvres are next up, including some standing in front of the painting. In a video Banksy posted on YouTube, titled Shred the Love, he showed the behind-the-scenes construction and the night of the auction. Now, Banksy has uploaded a video suggesting the entire canvas was supposed to shred. The nearly 3-minute long video is titled, "Shred the Love, the Director's cut." It shows hands and a hooded figure (Banksy is fond of hoodies) constructing the mechanism in a studio space, then it rolls on to the outside of Sotheby's before the auction. Love is in the Bin self-shredded in its frame immediately after selling for 860,000 at Sotheby's last week. The end of the new video notes: "In rehearsals it worked every time." A complete shredding of the same design is then shown. The canvas was shredded to right above the girl's head, leaving the balloon intact. The partial shredding drew speculation that the act was a stunt to increase the value of the painting of a young girl reaching for a heart-shaped red balloon. Banksy’s half-shredded Girl With Balloon is returning to Sotheby’s with a valuation of over 8 million six times the winning bid in 2018, when it was, albeit briefly, an intact painting. The act shocked the crowd, but the winning bidder, a European collector, went ahead and bought it anyway for $1.4 million, according to the auction house. In the video, entitled Shred the Love, the Director's Cut, Banksy reveals that 'in rehearsals' the shredding had worked 'every time', with footage of a test run showing a print passing through the. The video shows the famously anonymous artist constructing the shredding mechanism inside an ornate frame and pushing a button in a black box to activate the destruction at Sotheby's in London earlier this month. ![]() No sooner did the gavel come down to mark the sale of Banks. Banksy posted a new video to his website Tuesday implying the partial shredding of his "Girl With Balloon" at a London auction was supposed to have been complete. Art connoisseurs could only watch in horror as an expensive piece was shredded before their eyes. ![]()
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