We're not supposed to be embraced in that way.
But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist.
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Plus it saves money on having to buy canvases. "Now I have to keep painting on the street to prove to myself it wasn't a cynical plan.
"I started painting on the street because it was the only venue that would give me a show,” he states in the piece. Indeed, having made his fortune, he appears to be questioning the role of the art market in street art. It’s an interesting interpretation of Harold Rosenberg’s words, and perhaps proof that, while Banksy is the world’s most commercially successful graffiti artist, he retains a degree of thoughtfulness that belies his slick jokes and pecuniary success. I read how a critic described Jackson Pollock as a performance artist who happened to use paint, and the same could be said for graffiti writers-performance artists who happen to use paint. "Graffiti is an art form where the gesture is at least as important as the result, if not more so. "I totally overlooked how important it was to do it myself," he explained. He also admits that he made a mistake with his last show in 2008, when he hired an outdoor adverting firm to paint murals promoting his pet-shop style installation. “I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. "There is absolutely no reason for doing this show at all,” he explained to the Voice. As the Voice explains, “Banksy says he visited New York ‘a couple of months ago’ to scout locations for the October show, but he ‘returned to find most of the empty lots I planned to use have got condos built on them already.’”īanksy's heart-shaped balloon, in Red Hook, New York, earlier this month.Ĭommercially, the street artist says he has little to gain from his New York works. He also admits that the pace of development in New York often stymied his plans. Some of it will be pretty elaborate, and some will just be a scrawl on a toilet wall."
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In the piece, Banksy say his intensions for this month-long series of New York street pieces were pretty basic “the plan is to live here, react to things, see the sights-and paint on them. The interview, which went online yesterday, was conducted with the Voice’s Keegan Hamilton via email, and coincides with the street artist’s self-described New York residency. The last prominent press interview Banksy granted was with the Guardian in 2003, so it’s nice to read his words more or less first hand, in this newly published Village Voice article. The graffiti artist talks Jackson Pollock and how “street art can feel like the marketing wing of an art career” Banksy's Crazy Horses piece, lower Manhattan, earlier this month Banksy speaks to the Village Voice
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