Banksy exhibit opening at the Vanina Holasek Gallery.
Shirts - $50, Books - $35 / $50, Actual Pieces - outrageou$
posted by mybodystory.com at 4:27 PM
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Banksy exhibit opening at the Vanina Holasek Gallery.
Shirts - $50, Books - $35 / $50, Actual Pieces - outrageou$
8 Comments:
I feel like I got too much of a preview and won't go now...
The exhibit is an entire building, it's 3 floors. This isn't even half of the pieces there.
aww you bought the book, at a show of an artist attacking consumerism.
Yeah, I'm not sure how I feel about expensive gallery pieces masquerading as transgressive art.
I'll probably go to see the exhibit because I really like his work, but being given the opportunity to buy it kind of ruins it for me. Seeing his book at Urban Outfitters didn't make me like his work any less, but I definitely didn't want to buy his book.
I don't know. It's a difficult subject for me. My instinct is to say that when you take the scale and content out of the context of the streets, it loses a lot of its meaning. The countercultural catch phrases seem more juvenile when you frame them, hang them in a chi-chi Chelsea gallery and set an astronomical price.
The attitude and message has been castrated and the meaning has been radically changed. The origin of the work has shifted from a genuine request and desire for cultural and political shifts to the meaningless rebellion of a teenager doodling on the walls of his parent's house.
Anyway, that's just what I think.
think about it, he is pricing everything so ridiculous that if anyone were to buy they are merely but a fool who doesnt really understand what his point is.
santas ghetto he put on last year on oxford street in london was awesome, but it wasnt strictly a banksy exhibit... but there was some sweet art there none the less!
wish i was in london if only to check out this years santas ghetto.. oh wells.
SinCityHardcore... I think you're engaging in some seriously wishful thinking. His pricing is consistent with other gallery artists of his fame and reputation.
The prices aren't ridiculous to collectors and, in fact, many of the pieces in this gallery show are coming from private collections.
http://www.fashionologie.com/fashionologie/2007/12/crazy-like-a-fo.html
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