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Banksy´s biggest Exhibition Ever
Banksy´s biggest Exhibition Ever
Julia Reid, Bristol
The elusive graffiti artist Banksy has returned to his home town of Bristol for his biggest ever exhibition.
He has transformed all three floors of the Bristol City Museum with a mix of animatronics and installations.
The reception desk has been transformed into a burnt out ice cream van, and a caged 'breathing' leopard welcomes visitors.
Banksy said the whole exercise is about questioning why we celebrate some cultures and not others.
"Maybe one day graffiti art will hang in lots of museums and will be viewed in the same way as other modern art," he said.
"Although personally I hope it never sinks that low.
"I think we might have dragged them (the museum) down to our level rather than being elevated to theirs."
Only a few staff at the museum knew the Banksy transformation was planned and the project was kept secret from city councillors and trustees.
Banksy spent 48 hours installing more than a hundred drawings and paintings, the majority of which have never been seen before.
Although he has never revealed his full identity, the street artist is known to be from the Bristol area and many of his most famous works are still in place across the city.
In 2006 he painted a naked man hanging from a window on the wall of a sexual health clinic.
The council let local residents decide whether it could stay, and 97% of those who voted were in favour of keeping it.
Maybe one day graffii art will hang in lots of museums and will be viewed in the same way as other modern art, although personally I hope it never sinks that low.
Banksy says the latest exhibition is a "salute" to a city that supported his early career and put up with "a lot of mistakes that were made in public".
The deputy head of Bristol museums, Rebecca Burton, told Sky News Online she was astonished by the scale of the work.
"It really is amazing. The scale of the show is unbelievable," she said.
"It is fabulous that he has worked within the context of the museum. Sometimes you might not even notice a work at first.
"Some of it is funny, some will be controversial. And there is loads that has never been seen before."
Security is likely to be tight at the exhibition as Banksy works now sell for hundreds of thousands of pounds.
His painting of two monkeys, Laugh Now, fetched £228,000 at auction and celebrity Banksy owners include Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and Christina Aguilera.
Julia Reid, Bristol
The elusive graffiti artist Banksy has returned to his home town of Bristol for his biggest ever exhibition.
He has transformed all three floors of the Bristol City Museum with a mix of animatronics and installations.
The reception desk has been transformed into a burnt out ice cream van, and a caged 'breathing' leopard welcomes visitors.
Banksy said the whole exercise is about questioning why we celebrate some cultures and not others.
"Maybe one day graffiti art will hang in lots of museums and will be viewed in the same way as other modern art," he said.
"Although personally I hope it never sinks that low.
"I think we might have dragged them (the museum) down to our level rather than being elevated to theirs."
Only a few staff at the museum knew the Banksy transformation was planned and the project was kept secret from city councillors and trustees.
Banksy spent 48 hours installing more than a hundred drawings and paintings, the majority of which have never been seen before.
Although he has never revealed his full identity, the street artist is known to be from the Bristol area and many of his most famous works are still in place across the city.
In 2006 he painted a naked man hanging from a window on the wall of a sexual health clinic.
The council let local residents decide whether it could stay, and 97% of those who voted were in favour of keeping it.
Maybe one day graffii art will hang in lots of museums and will be viewed in the same way as other modern art, although personally I hope it never sinks that low.
Banksy says the latest exhibition is a "salute" to a city that supported his early career and put up with "a lot of mistakes that were made in public".
The deputy head of Bristol museums, Rebecca Burton, told Sky News Online she was astonished by the scale of the work.
"It really is amazing. The scale of the show is unbelievable," she said.
"It is fabulous that he has worked within the context of the museum. Sometimes you might not even notice a work at first.
"Some of it is funny, some will be controversial. And there is loads that has never been seen before."
Security is likely to be tight at the exhibition as Banksy works now sell for hundreds of thousands of pounds.
His painting of two monkeys, Laugh Now, fetched £228,000 at auction and celebrity Banksy owners include Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and Christina Aguilera.
Banksy Summer Show
Banksy started as a freehand graffiti artist in around 1992 as one of Bristol's DryBreadZ Crew (DBZ). He was inspired by local artists and his work was part of the larger Bristol underground scene. From the start he used stencils as elements of his freehand pieces. By 2000 he had turned to the art of stencilling after realising how much less time it took to complete a "piece." He claims he changed to stencilling whilst he was hiding from the police under a train carriage, when he noticed the stencilled serial number and employing this technique soon became more widely noticed for his art around Bristol and London.
Banksy's stencils feature striking and humorous images occasionally combined with slogans. The message is usually anti-war, anti-capitalist or anti-establishment. Subjects include rats, monkeys, policemen, soldiers, children, and the elderly.
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