19 Jan
Banksy Defaces Hurst
I try not to post too much stuff about Banksy but seeing as he’s just created another unique piece of art by defacing a Damien Hurst painting for an Aids charity event it leaves me no other option. The auction is on valentines day and it’ll be interesting to see how much this one goes for. Will it add to the original art’s value? Almost certainly. Whether you’re a Banksy lover or hater, you can’t deny that he keeps on surprising us.
Update - 15/02/08 - It fetched $1,870,000 USD.
fucking nice nice nice
a bit like rauschenberg erasing a drawing of de kooning’s then framing it and selling it:
“It was nothing destructive. I unwrote that drawing because I was trying to write one with the other end of the pencil that had an eraser.”
or DH lawrence quoted in mailer’s ‘the faith of graffiti’:
“You must kill a thing to know it satisfactorily.”
or from ‘public discourse’:
“the graffiti artist is always thinking about: what do i need to destroy in order to replace it with something more humane, something more colourful, something more life-affirming?”
great stuff.
January 21st, 2008 at 10:28 pm