domenica 22 novembre 2009

BANSKY

Banksy is a quasi-anonymous British graffiti artist.
He is believed to be a native of Yate, South Gloucestershire, near Bristol and to have been born in 1974, but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and personal and biographical details.
According to Tristan Manco, Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s
His artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics.
His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique, is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass who maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
His art has appeared in cities around the world.
Banksy's work was born out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.

Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti.

Art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder.



Banksy (Bristol, 1974 o 1975) è un artista inglese.
È uno dei maggiori esponenti della street art. Si sa di lui che è cresciuto a Bristol ma la sua vera identità è tenuta nascosta. Le sue opere sono spesso a sfondo satirico e riguardano argomenti come la politica, la cultura e l'etica. La tecnica che preferisce per i suoi lavori di guerrilla art è da sempre lo stencil, che proprio con Banksy è arrivato a riscuotere un successo sempre maggiore presso street artists di tutto il mondo. I suoi stencil hanno cominciato ad apparire proprio a Bristol, poi a Londra, in particolare nelle zone a nordest, e a seguire nelle maggiori capitali europee, notevolmente non solo sui muri delle strade, ma anche nei posti più impensati come le gabbie dello zoo di Barcellona. Nonostante la recente fama mondiale, e le notevoli quotazioni delle sue opere, Banksy continua a rimanere fuori dallo starsystem e a preferire la sua arte in mezzo alla gente comune

3 commenti:

  1. o my dear!what a pleasure this blog!!you know,im madly in love with Banksy^^

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  2. buuut the skin of the slide.. im not sure..

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  3. ahah mio you don't like the skin ahahhaha
    much love to you... I want change -Bansky-

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