Love is in the Bin will be offered at auction on 14 October. Other recent works included the opening of Dismaland, his dystopian, Disneyland-esque theme park in 2015, which he described as a “family theme park unsuitable for children”. The self-destruction was the latest in a long history of anti-establishment statements by the artist. The ever-elusive Banksy has released a new video detailing the now infamous shredding of his 'Girl With Balloon' painting which was auctioned off at Sothebys earlier this month. British street artist Banksy built a shredder into a frame on his painting ‘Girl With Balloon.’ As soon as the painting was sold, an alarm went off and the painting shredded itself. Girl With Balloon, which depicts a small child reaching up toward a heart-shaped red balloon, was originally stencilled on a wall in east London and has been endlessly reproduced, becoming one of Banksy’s best-known images.īanksy rose to prominence through a series of graffiti pieces that appeared on buildings across the country, marked by their satirical themes. It has an estimated selling price of £4-6m. On Saturday, Banksy published a video on Instagram that purported to show how he built a paper shredder into the frame of the 2006 painting Girl with a Balloon. The painting, retitled Love is in the Bin after the shredding, is back on offer and will appear at a Sotheby’s auction in October. The canvas was passed through a secret shredder hidden in the large Victorian-style frame, leaving the bottom half in tatters and only a solitary red balloon left on a white background in the frame.
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