for a terrible TERRIBLE shitty stencil on cardboard, that could have been knocked up by the 10 year old with an obsession with presidential shootings but can't yet do eyes and sold for a tenner at the parish jumble sale.
http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?sale_number=N08720&live_lot_id=91
eeewww that's a bad one, and i like Banksy.
ReplyDeleteThere must be a lot of money sloshing around NYC.
There is another item, Lot No.44 which is just two squiggles on a page that went for 80 grand.
2001 maby but 2008 what the fuck!!!
ReplyDeleteExecuted in 2008, this work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Pest Control.
PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist in 2008
Bought in, auction house and 'prominent' gallery on 50 50 share to sell later on, generates interest to those who dont know you see, kind of loss leader.
ReplyDeleteLet's be honest, it wouldn't have even fetched two quid at the jumble sale if it didn't have a celebrity street art name attached to it for the sheeple with bad taste to fawn over. Unless of course the parent of the retarded child that did it were to pay some random stranger to pretend they liked it, so that the kid wouldn't get upset.
ReplyDeleteSome of his early stuff really was generic and shit in a kind of 'eveyone does a sid vicious stencil at some point' kinf of way.
ReplyDeleteSome might say it still is.
ReplyDeleteRemember that thing about a minor Hollywood star tweeting about the new Banksy pieces to break the news? Well, it all made sense today when I read an article that some celebrities with a lot of followers are being paid thousands of dollars per tweet, to link to things as a new form of product placement.
ReplyDeleteBanksy's U.S PR division would no doubt have chosen this method as their latest covert marketing strategy. Shame all their hype didn't manage to leverage an Oscar though, to send the brand stratospheric as they'd hoped.
The street art advertising puppet masters pull the strings and the dim-witted sheeple fanboys dance a merry jig, like mentally crippled marionettes...unable to muster any intellectual self-defence against the cynical manipulation they've been undergoing for years.
just being nominated for an Oscar no doubt generated nearly as many DVD sales as winning an Oscar would have done, so that was a win-win situation either way
ReplyDeletewhat I find most upsetting about the piece of "art" sold for 68k is not the price tag, it's the fact that Banksy has become so greedy he doesn't even have any integrity/self-respect/quality control, and so would release this piece for sale. It's shit. By any standards. it should be in the bin.
like his recent street pieces, the quality is dropping fast. I think he's bored. It's hardly a challenge if everyone spunks in their pants and opens their wallets every time you do anything.
I'm sure he'll stick around a while longer, there's two Royal Weddings and the Olympics to rinse cash out of, but then I think he'll fake his own death, let the corporation continue rolling along re-selling all the old stuff, and he'll go do something else with his life, something he can fail at so that it's a proper challenge.
'just being nominated for an Oscar no doubt generated nearly as many DVD sales as winning an Oscar would have done, so that was a win-win situation either way'
ReplyDeleteThis statement is total rubbish, there was never a chance of him winning anyhow.
"what I find most upsetting about the piece of "art" sold for 68k is not the price tag".
IT DIDNT SELL, IT WAS BOUGHT IN, THAT MEANS KEPT BY THE AUCTION HOUSE AND GALLERY TO START THE BALL ROLLING, NO MINEY CHANGED HANDS, ITS A COMMON PRACTICE.
Stop Lying! I bought it and I'm 68K poorer, but I bought a Banksyyyyyyyy! Now roll on the dinner parties!
ReplyDeleteJust like Hirst bought his own diamond skull at auction, it's all about generating hype. The PR strategists of the Banksy brand can't let a fortnight pass without some tacky publicity stunt or other to keep their product name on everybody's lips.
ReplyDeleteThere's a saying that taking notice of advertising is like letting somebody take a shit in your head. The street art fanboys must have excrement oozing out of their earholes by now, but still they beg for more. It's really quite sad and disturbing to watch.
Really? I think it sold to an actual buyer, not in-house... that's how it seems....
ReplyDeleteIf this is another Team Banksy pr stunt, then why put such a terrible piece of shit up for sale?
ReplyDeleteAnd how is that Oscar statement totally rubbish? Don't matter if he didn't have a snowman's chance in hell of winning, he still got shit loads of publicity just by being nominated. The fact we all heard about the nomination is proof of that!
He's long past caring about quality, it's all about the cash. You have to remember the target market he's aiming for now...and this piece probably looks good to most Americans.
ReplyDeleteHe's long past caring about quality, it's all about the cash. You have to remember the target market he's aiming for now...and this piece probably looks good to most Americans.
ReplyDeleteIf this is another Team Banksy pr stunt, then why put such a terrible piece of shit up for sale?
ReplyDeleteAnd how is that Oscar statement totally rubbish? Don't matter if he didn't have a snowman's chance in hell of winning, he still got shit loads of publicity just by being nominated. The fact we all heard about the nomination is proof of that!
Stop Lying! I bought it and I'm 68K poorer, but I bought a Banksyyyyyyyy! Now roll on the dinner parties!
ReplyDeletejust being nominated for an Oscar no doubt generated nearly as many DVD sales as winning an Oscar would have done, so that was a win-win situation either way
ReplyDeletewhat I find most upsetting about the piece of "art" sold for 68k is not the price tag, it's the fact that Banksy has become so greedy he doesn't even have any integrity/self-respect/quality control, and so would release this piece for sale. It's shit. By any standards. it should be in the bin.
like his recent street pieces, the quality is dropping fast. I think he's bored. It's hardly a challenge if everyone spunks in their pants and opens their wallets every time you do anything.
I'm sure he'll stick around a while longer, there's two Royal Weddings and the Olympics to rinse cash out of, but then I think he'll fake his own death, let the corporation continue rolling along re-selling all the old stuff, and he'll go do something else with his life, something he can fail at so that it's a proper challenge.