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Thursday, June 15, 2023

Banksy Cut & Run - Solo Exhibition at Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

Banksy is having a solo exhibition for the first time in 14 years and it's OFFICIAL i.e. unlike other exhibitions of his work, Banksy Cut and Run is being mounted with his full involvement and co-operation.

It's been in planning mode for two years - in total secrecy - and is now installed and OPENS on Sunday in Gallery 1 at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow! Dates for public admission are 18th June until 28th August 2023. (Ticket details below). 

Tickets are currently available for general admission from 18/06/2023 to 01/07/2023




The show, which will feature work from right across his career, is called CUT & RUN: 25 years card labour. It includes:
  • new versions of his work made from the original stencils
  • works which are painted rather than just stencilled
Works include:
  • Kissing Coppers which first appeared on a wall of the Prince Albert pub in Brighton in 2004.
  • Mobile Lovers, from Bristol in 2014, which features a hugging couple who are both looking at their screen over the other's shoulder.
The BBC have been allowed to help highlight its opening and have a really informative article
Banksy to stage first solo exhibition in 14 years in Glasgow - which also has a video of what it looks like
The latest show aims to reveal the whole behind-the-scenes process of how his works are made, with original sketches on display as well as the stencils, which have been painted on to give them a new lease of life.
It will open right the way through the night at the weekend in order to cope with the demand for tickets. Hours are as follows
  • Sunday – Thursday: 9am – 11pm
  • Friday and Saturday: 9am – 5am the following morning
At weekends we are open all night but please be aware the show contains tight spaces, fragile items and disorientating light effects, if you show up appearing to be very intoxicated you may be refused entry.

Tickets

  • Adult - £15
  • Child - £5
  • Student/OAP/low waged/tight fisted - £10
  • Carers free
  • A limited amount of walk up tickets are available each day from the box office.
This is the link to book tickets for a timed slot

Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

The Gallery of Modern art in Glasgow opened in 1996 in a neoclassical building in Royal Exchange Square in the heart of Glasgow city centre.

The Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow - picture in 2018

It claims to be the most visited modern art gallery in Scotland.  It is open daily and is free to enter.
GoMA is the most visited modern art gallery in Scotland. It is a unique place that uses modern art to inspire an exchange of powerful ideas about life and human experiences.
Outside the Gallery, there is a statue of the Duke of Wellington which regularly has a cone placed on his head. Apparently it's one of the reasons why Banksy thought this was the right gallery for his solo exhibition.

CC BY-SA 3.0, Link



GoMA and The Library at GOMA are open :
  • Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday: 10 – 5
  • Friday & Sunday: 11 – 5
Entry is FREE

As indicated above, it will be opening through the night for the duration of the exhibition

Posted by Making A Mark on Thursday, June 15, 2023 0 comments
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Monday, April 26, 2021

From Basquiat to Banksy

If you are a Banksy, Basquiat or urban street art fan you'll be interested in the first Private Sale at Christies in London - following the lifting on most restrictions for all retail

It's titled Off the Wall: Basquiat to Banksy 

"Off the Wall: Basquiat to Banksy" is a private selling exhibition showcasing the contemporary explosion of street art, charting a course through post-punk New York, millennial Britain and beyond. From the illicit and illegitimate to the painterly and political, it celebrates the negotiation between street and studio over nearly half a century.

To find out more you can browse and view the lots in the exhibition and Private Sale
I've been to a number of pre-auction exhibitions at Christies and the galleries and viewing opportunities are excellent.
Our London galleries are now open for public viewing, following government guidelines. Private clients and the wider public are able to visit with other members of their household, and trade clients with their working group. 

By classifying it as a Private Sale, each artwork has a predetermined price - and is NOT up for auction. It enables the buying and selling art outside of the auction calendar i.e. it's as if Christies was a gallery for secondary sales.

The Private Sales includes 52 items by the following graffiti and street artists.

(the number of their artworks in the exhibition is indicated in brackets after their name):
  • A-One, (1964-2001) (1) - who's not yet made it on to Wikipedia!
  • Banksy (11) - nobody knows who he really is. Except he's English (probably from the west country) and he's a street artist, political activist, and film director who has a company which provides Certificates of what is and is not a genuine Banksy!
Banksy on the Christies website
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) (8) an American artist whose themes art focused on dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. 
  • Blek Le Rat (B. 1952) (3) a French graffiti artist - one of the first in Paris. He used to stencil rats on walls.
  • Keith Haring (1958-1990) (3) an American pop/graffiti artist in the 1980s - he frequently drew on New York subways
  • Invader, (b. 1969) (4) - a French urban artist. He is known for his ceramic tile mosaics modeled on the pixelated art of 1970s–1980s 8-bit video games. Also a graduate of the Parisian École des Beaux-Arts
  • Kaws, (b.1974) (2) - an American artist and designer whose includes repeated use of a cast of figurative characters and motifs.
  • OSGEMEOS, (B. 1974) (2) - identical twin street artists Otavio Pandolfo and Gustavo Pandolfo
  • Rammellzee, (1960-2010) (3) New York street artist 
  • Kenny Scharf (b. 1958) (5) an American Painter active at the same time as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring,
  • Stik, (b. 1979) (4) - a British graffiti artist based in London. He is known for painting large stick figures.
It would be interesting to know who's selling!
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Sunday, June 07, 2020

Banksy provides symbolic comment on George Floyd + text!

Yesterday Banksy posted a painting on his website. The painting depicts a memorial to a faceless black man. This includes a candle which is beginning to burn the American flag - presumably in relation to the way George Floyd's death has sparked outrage and protest which has spread from Minneapolis across the USA and around the world.


He also posted three images on Instagram. It has three images - of
  1. text (see below), 
  2. the full size painting (see above) and 
  3. the cropped version ( see beneath the text)


The post now has over 2 million "likes" and a LOT of comments

What is less understandable is the nature of some of the comments on his Instagram post

Some of these indicate that there are several who do NOT "get it" that Banksy has been commenting on social issues via visual images for a VERY long time.

OK - so this time he decided to spell it out too. How come they STILL don't get it?



George Floyd died from asphyxiation on 25 May because a policeman with a long history of conduct violations knelt on his throat for 8 minutes and 46 seconds while two others held him down and a fourth did nothing.  They have all been arrested.

His death is viewed by many as a symbol of systemic police brutality against African-Americans - which "the establishment" a.k.a. "the white people' has done nothing to stop.

The protests around the world have not stopped since.  I see some of the latest have taken to hanging the American flag upside down.....

Articles on the Instagram post are as follows:

UK
USA
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Friday, February 14, 2020

A Banksy Valentine for Bristol


I don't think Banksy has sent us a Valentine before.

This one - of a young girl using a catapult to send lots of plastic red flowers and petals - appeared yesterday in the Barton Hill area of Bristol yesterday - but there was nothing on Banksy's instagram account - which is how he confirms that a work is by him.

However this morning in the early hours this post appeared on his Instagram account.

He's now got nearly 1.3 million likes in 19 hours which is not bad going.

Meanwhile the people in the house on which it appeared are trying to work out how to preserve it....

More about this.....

As usual, news of a new Banksy has gone global - here are just a few of the references to it.



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Monday, February 10, 2020

How Banksy retains control

There is an absolutely fascinating article in the New York Times - Banksy Is a Control Freak. But He Can’t Control His Legacy - which unpicks the business model Banksy uses to remain in control of his brand.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND artists read it as it's a very useful way of demonstrating ways in which artists can retain control over the copyright of their own artwork if marketing and selling direct to the public.
Banksy’s rise and rise is the result of years of meticulous control of his message, his market and, most importantly, his mystique.
Below I've attempted to summarise what actions Banksy has taken to control the market for his artwork - including:
  • Pest Control
  • Gross Domestic Product
  • Bbay
It looks simpler than it is - and a lot of it is entirely to do with how the law works.

BANKSY COPYRIGHT CONTROL: In summary.....


In summary, he has created a wonderful system for keeping scams and fraud under control
(i.e. avoiding the awful Andy Warhol problem)

Gross Domestic Product - the website and shop created to regulate rip-offs of Banksy's Trademark.

Sale of originals


Banksy has no gallery representing him. Instead, he sells NEW original works for million dollar multiples to selected private collectors.

These sales help fund his big projects - which keep his "name in the frame".

Trade Mark without Text


This is the formal documentation of his trademark.

Subsequently he was challenged in court - which led to various developments described below.
READ MORE......>>
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Banksy is the most popular artist - or is he?

Banksy is the UK's favourite artist according to a poll.

 But which poll?

The Guardian


I found the story in an article by Jonathan Jones in the Guardian
Banksy is the Brits’ favourite painter of all time - is this status deserved?  The secretive stenciller is no Rembrandt – but a new poll shows that ‘high art’ alienates the public more than any other cultural form
No it doesn't actually - but Jonathan never lets facts get in the way of a good diatribe!

It turned out he was referencing The Sun
According to a poll reported in the Sun, the secretive stenciller is “Brits’ favourite painter of all time ... beating greats such as Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt and Monet.”
Banksy official website - July 2019 - and no reaction to being the "Brits favourite painter"

The Sun


So I went to have a look at The Sun, thinking it's a very long time since I've seen The Sun interested in "Art"!!

Turns out in their article Banksy named as Britain’s favourite painter of all time in nationwide poll that they were referencing a poll in Homes and Antiques Magazine
More than 2,000 adults were asked to name their favourite painters or sculptor — and Banksy was the only living artist to make the top ten. Mel Sherwood, editor of Homes & Antiques magazine, said: “It is both surprising and exciting to see Banksy at the top of this poll.

Homes & Antiques Magazine Poll by YouGov


...and so finally I make it to Homes & Antiques Magazine (shame on you Jonathan Jones for not actually reading the Sun's article!)

 ...to find that they have something called The Art Issue 2019 and the poll was commissioned for that.

Their article Banksy named UK’s favourite artist of all time suggests that
Controversial street artist Banksy has been named the UK’s favourite artist of all time in a poll we conducted in conjunction with YouGov to celebrate the release of our annual Art Issue. The renowned artist took the lead over more traditional artists such as Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gough. 
The poll, of more than 2,000 UK adults, asked respondents to name their favourite artist of all time. The Top 20 features a range of artists including impressionists, sculptors, masters and painters from the 14th century right up to the modern day.
Their top 20 in the poll for Homes Antiques Magazine are
READ MORE......>>
Posted by Making A Mark on Tuesday, July 16, 2019
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Saturday, October 06, 2018

Watch video of Banksy 'Girl with a balloon' being shredded after selling for $1 million+

Banksy has the last laugh.
  • Sotheby's Auction gavel comes down on "Girl with a Balloon" after it sells for over $1 million
  • An alarm goes off inside frame - also made by Banksy
  • The painting starts to drop down and comes out shredded into strips!
Banksy posted on Instagram....



A post shared by Banksy (@banksy) on

and you can watch on the VIDEO made by Pierre Koukjian and also shared on Instagram


The incident has gone viral this morning.

Oddly the Sotheby's Twitter feed is silent!

Elsewhere accounts of what happened can be found as follows

Going, going gone.... but did Banksy get the last laugh?


Oddly enough, I think that since this is a unique event - and a first - that it will go down in art history and the value of the now destroyed artwork is probably a lot more than the buyer paid for it!
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