Banksys Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill

På 89 7th Avenue between West 4th and Bleeker Street i West Village i New York har Banksy åpnet utstillingen Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill. Utrolig morsomt å se mannen gjøre noe helt annet. Og det fungerer som bare fy.
Bilder er rappa fra woostercollective. Videoen er stjælt fra Youtube. Enjoy.

Som avslutning poster jeg The Guardians kunstanmelder, Jonathan Jones’ blog om utstillingen:
“Sometimes I feel like Jake LaMotta in Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull when he’s in prison, banging his head against the wall until it’s bloody, sobbing “You’re so stupid, so stupid.” Banksy really pissed me off - until I saw the 2008 Turner Prize exhibition. I don’t have much feeling for this man’s scratchy cartoon rats and his bloody obvious politics, and the omnipresence of his coffee table book seems a manifestation of cultural laziness. How can anyone see depth in his clod-hopping jokes? And depth is what matters in art. The inner life is what matters.

This isn’t about high versus low culture. It’s about introspection versus bullying. Comic books by Alan Moore or Charles Burns lead you inward: street art all too often just makes its loud gesture to be seen, not to reach anyone’s soul. But … blimey, after looking at the academic, over-theorised artists shortlisted for the Turner this year I can’t honestly say it’s fair to dismiss Banksy, whose new show in New York you can see some clips of above. He’s outside the little world of museum art and he’s got some kind of mad energy. I can admire energy even when it’s vicious. So I don’t know. Maybe critics who dismiss graffiti art really are ignorant purblind snobs. I’m so stupid, so stupid. Can you see the blood on the wall?”

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