![]() we were told that the frame (which was glued) was integral to the work breaking it would damage the work, and negatively impact its artistic value. ‘ when we asked the artist’s studio about removing the work from its frame during the cataloguing process, we were expressly told not to. it wasn’t to be examined out of the frame.Īrtnet also obtained an official response from sotheby’s explaining why their not being able to detect the shredder should not be a cause for suspicion: it needed to be sold in the latter half of the proceedings and, c. the painting had to be hung in the salesroom during the sale b. author kenny schachter claims to have gotten the inside scoop after meeting with an inside source known as deep pockets. their account details strict instructions given by banksy’s publicity that go as follows: a. others query the auction house’s involvement. some sceptics believe the artwork didn’t actually shred (these conspiracists imagine a pre-rolled, pre-shredded, additional artwork, was located inside the bottom of the frame). If this is enough proof of the artist’s intentions I am not sure. then, there’s a test run of the frame in action, shredding not just halfway, but from top to bottom. ‘in rehearsals it worked every time,’ reads a subtitle. an epilogue in the video then reveals that the frame only worked half as well as intended. it begins by first showing the shredder being carefully concealed within the frame, before cutting to the auction preview. The video, titled ‘ shred the love,‘ is billed as a directors cut to the short clip banksy posted on his instagram. luckily, a week and a half after panel holders at sotheby’s were left agasp for an explanation, banksy adds fuel to the fire once more, posting a video that reveals how it didn’t go quite as planned. less are people concerned however, with how this appears to contradict the very things banksy stands for (anti-capitalism, anti-establishment, anti-anyone-owning-a-banksy-artwork-that’s-in-one-piece), but more with understanding how the street artist pulled off such a stunt. and if you have, you probably know already that the girl with the balloon, in it’s now less-than-perfect state, has since been renamed and most likely increased in value. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you haven’t had enough of the copious amounts of reportage on banksy‘s viral art-shredding stunt then you are in the right place. ![]()
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