Banksy has created a screen saver for "The Simpsons"

[Posav]

Tiutchev,

Banksy does not know all the political nuances.
He zapudridi brains that war, it's, like, left anarhogruppa, help them.
In fact, a "war" are right-wing liberal cosmopolitans - virtually the protests against whom Banksy paints and graffiti.
After Banksy Anarchist-antiglobalist.

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Сообщение от Tiutchev

A few days ago it became known that living in Norway, Russian Vagif Abilov ordered the stamps with the image of the phallus on the Foundry Bridge. The proceeds from the sale of stamps will be donated to the fund participants to the art group.

http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/12/11/artvoina/

As a former stamp collector, stating again the usual journalistic "duck".
Postage stamps can let only the state (the concept of state in this case is somewhat broader than usual, but in any case, individuals under this concept does not fall). Individual may produce only a souvenir, memorabilia, etc. brands that are not signs of postage and philatelists are usually not collected.

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At the auction display works Banksy titled "Choose your weapon."
Image of a young man in a mask and hood, which keeps on a leash is schematically depicted a dog costs 450 pounds.

 
Banksy wrote:

«VOINA are the people who drew a giant penis on a road bridge opposite the KGB headquarters and protested against police corruption by
overturning eleven patrol cars in one night ».

[Тютчев]

The British artist Banksy has collected for the art group "War" 4.5 million rubles

14/12/201004: 11

MOSCOW, December 14 - RIA Novosti. The most famous in the world of British street artist Banksy, who has decided to support the participants of the Russian art group "War" and list them in favor of the proceeds from the sale of prints titled "Choose a weapon" ( Choose Your Weapon), collected 4.5 million rubles, reported Tuesday at a site master graffiti.

Members of the group "War" was arrested on November 15 a share "palace coup" in which artists next to the Mikhailovsky Castle overturned police cars. They were charged with hooliganism under Article 213 of the Criminal Code provides for penalties of up to 5 years imprisonment. Representatives of the art community believe the prosecution were inadequate.

Several cultural leaders decided to organize a series of fundraising events for "War", including reasonable attorneys' fees. In particular, one of the workers in Russia, the Russians organized the production on "The War" stamps at the post office in Norway. Funds from the sale of stamps, go to support those arrested. A Moscow bookstore phalange "Photo Exhibit in support of the members of the radical art group.

Banksy said last week that lists the "war" proceeds from the sale of printed limited edition prints titled "Choose a weapon" (Choose Your Weapon). In a statement on the website says that while sales of prints cost of 450 pounds (22 thousand) to purchase them because of the increased demand could not all attend. It is planned to organize them more sales, but has not yet specified whether this money is also sent to the Russians.

As the message on the site, the admiration of Banksy's most famous event caused the "war" - a giant phalluses on the Foundry Bridge. The drawing was made for 23 seconds, and then the bridges at night June 14, 2010 was raised by just next to the St. Petersburg FSB. The artist also praised the action "a coup", which gave a law enforcement reason for the detention of members of art group.

Banksy himself, drawing on the walls in the most unexpected places around the globe, is also engaged in illegal activities, so no one ever saw his face or heard his real name, though about the artist even made a film "Exit Through the Gift Shop" (Exit Through the Gift Shop ), which became this year's contender for an Oscar.

In favor of the St. Petersburg comrades on the art of Banksy decided to sell a drawing of a man in a hood and mask, holding a dog on a leash. He printed an edition of 100 copies and is available in several color variations - gray, green, red and blue.

Art group "War" is famed for its radical actions, the most famous of which were arranged at the State Museum of Biological im.Timiryazeva in Moscow, the Foundry Bridge in St. Petersburg and Moscow Tagansky court during the sentencing organizers of the exhibition "Forbidden Art - 2006 . Participants in the "war" has repeatedly brought to administrative responsibility for their actions.

http://rian.ru/culture/20101214/308339012.html

[Posav]

November 29, 2010. Kiev. Anarchist action in support of the group "War".

"Unauthorized rally near the walls of the Russian embassy in Kiev has collected 13 activists who set out to raise the power of thought into the air several cars embassy, turn in the air and gently lower the glands on the roof. While one group with signs," Holy shit Raska drown in shit "and" freedom of War! Shit! Freedom War! "draining the protection of the Embassy, the second group, armed with occult knowledge was trying to turn the car. came to the rescue squad police had still to disperse the activists.
No arrests were made. With songs and a black flag comrades went to the store and expropriated hundreds of products on the hryvnia, following the tradition established by the activists of the "war".
Freedom of War! Shit! Freedom of War! "

[Тютчев]

Exit through the gift shop, or the question of the degree of deception

13/05/201013: 47

Tamara Baranenkova

When problems with the police invariably arise from a person who "spoil" the Municipal Property politically incorrect drawings, graffiti artists Banksy made to conceal the name, but after his "rock painting" migrated into the category of expensive art objects, nothing has changed. "I like to think that I, living in Western democratic societies lack the courage to urge anonymously, what no one believes in - like peace, justice and freedom" - he says.

Reduce pleerNo that hides behind his "public anonymity" - a provocation, a game or a sincere desire to remain independent in a world where everything can be bought and sold - is just as mysterious as he is. Do I have to say that Banksy's debut film "Exit through the gift shop", released today in cinemas in Russia, the situation is not clarified. A principal method of artistic film, which became both his declaration of love to the cans of spray paint, freedom and danger, and verification of modern art for lice, and does has a sense that you bitch ...

About the film

So, Thierry, eccentric owner of a small shop of second-hand clothes in downtown Los Angeles, whose sideburns make him look like a cartoon character, never far from a small amateur camera and shoot it, all that arm will fall, from their own children and ending with its own toilet. Once Thierry goes to visit his French relatives, where he learned that his cousin is engaged in street-art, and the idea of the flow suddenly inspired and fascinated him. Henceforth, Thierry - not just a psycho who can not part with the camera, as director, a film about the heroes of street art. At least, that this version is announced to everyone who enters the lens of his camera.

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Painted on the night the wall, roof and other municipal surface people Thierry plagues miles of film: someone adds colorful mosaic tiles with computer characters and glues them around town, someone makes a giant drawings on a cliche, someone circles the brush shape night shadows - a motor works, the camera all the writing. Built by the way, promising, among other things, exclusive footage by Banksy, Shepard Fairy, Inveyderom and other internationally renowned graffiti artists at work (although many of us have something to say these names and how many people were lured into movies such promises - Underground to the fact and underground). Time passes, and this in its own way a free, poetic and romantic world of Thierry meets Banksy (the movie his voice changed and his face obscured), and later he be incorporated into the arts.

One of the major "pieces" of the film - the creators of the statement that he and documentaries based on real events: staff, "filmed on amateur camera, mixed it with shots of people sitting in front of the camera, telling about where they were, that saw and what about all of this thinking. And supposedly Banksy, in whose hands once got these shots, and drew a meaningless stream in the right direction by making one movie. But frankly, the question of veracity of these allegations is easier just to replace the question of the degree of deception, and even better - do not ask them to do, accept as a condition of the game and enjoy how clever it is.

On the art

In essence, this is a semi-, or mockumentary film - a good excuse to speculate and think on the subject of modern art in general.

"We see art created by a privileged few. A very small group of people doing, promotes, purchases, exhibits art and decides how it be. The real power is concentrated in the hands of a few hundred people," - says Banksy and it seemed to offer us an alternative. Streets, walls, bridges and roofs - the endless playground for creativity, where there are no buyers and sellers, auctions and galleries, where everyone can express himself as he likes, most importantly - courage, and promptness. But in the world non-stop consumption, where the popularity of works of art is akin to the very popular chocolate bars that are more likely to flicker on TV, things are not so simple.

Especially inherited from Banksy's pop art with his idea of repetition and copying if not as a creative process, as its object precisely - and there too who are on that much and who on that conscience is enough. And enchanting canvases that are "slander" the newly-born genius, and in general a bad person Thierry (Michael Jackson with hair Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley with laser rifles and many other very plausible and witty absurdity) - yet the most stringent of the presented in the movie " works of art. "

"Maybe there is no art at all ..." - sigh closer to titers Banksy, and if you remember one of his own work - Kate Moss in the same way Marilyn, like two peas in a pod similar to the works of Thierry, - the feeling is formed, as to who you are - devourer of hamburger or a real connoisseur of Contemporary Art - he, too, was not determined yet.

So do not try to find the "thread" for which should be pulled to unravel the whole ball of - its a matter of fact, there is simply no. "Shop" - the same infinite Changeling, playing on the fact that everything in it is a provocation and things may be true, so that the "split" it is as useless and fun as wondering if there is art or not and whether it is possible to sell it as early in the film sells Thierry bought cheap clothes, giving her an exclusive rarity or not.

http://rian.ru/culture/20100513/233868907.html

[Тютчев]

For the real name of Banksy offered one million dollars

On the online auction site eBay put information on this behalf by British artist Banksy, reports news.com.au. Sold by the nickname jaybuysthings, who lives in the U.S., claims that he was able to find out his name by comparing data on the sales of his works with tax records.
The starting price of the lot is three thousand dollars. At the time of writing this note, the proposed price was equal to 999,999 dollars. Auction must be completed on January 19.

According to the seller wins the auction will be the only person to whom it will tell the real name of Banksy. Direct commodity which he sells, is a piece of paper with the name written on it. As explained jaybuysthings, his previous similar auction was canceled because of lack of "goods" as such, so he put the information up for sale in this form.

Banksy - world's most famous representative of street art. He was famous for his graffiti that began to draw on the walls of English Bristol. With the advent of fashion on the street art of his work began to be sold at auctions of famous buildings, but their prices have reached hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Who exactly is behind the pseudonym of Banksy, not known for certain. At various times, claimed that the real name of the artist - Robin Banks, Robert and Robin Cunningham, however, this information has not been confirmed.

http://www.lenta.ru/news/2011/01/18/banksy/

[Тютчев]

Art group "War" to send money Banksy behind bars

Participants of the art group "War" declared that he would send the money collected for them by the British graffiti artist Banksy, to help other prisoners. On this March 22 RIA Novosti reported.
An activist of the "war" Oleg Vorotnikov told reporters that the money was transferred to political prisoners. To them he was ranked diabetes activist "Other Russia" Tais Osipov, which is accused of drug trafficking (art. 228 Criminal Code), as well as the St. Petersburg anti-fascist Renata Sultanov, who, according to some sources, is accused by Article 111 of the Criminal Code (causing grievous injury Health). As previously reported, Banksy managed to collect for the art group "War" about 4.5 million rubles.

"And then we have listed all the National Bolsheviks, that they, in general, assembled themselves with the sale of stamps," - added collars. We are talking about brands with an image campaign "member of a prisoner of the KGB /X * nd in the thrall of the FSB," nominated for "Innovation".

Oleg collars and Leonid Nikolayev had about three months in jail in St. Petersburg. They are charged with disorderly conduct in connection with the action "Yard coup" in which were overturned several police cars. In February 2011 the court dismissed Vorotnikova and Nikolayev, each had to pledge as security for 300,000 rubles.

http://www.lenta.ru/news/2011/03/22/donation/