뱅크시(Banksy), 영국, 화가, 1974-현재

뱅크시(Banksy), 영국, 화가, 1974-현재

뱅크시(Banksy), 영국, 화가, 1974-현재

뱅크시(Banksy), 영국, 화가, 1974-현재

뱅크시(Banksy), 영국, 화가, 1974-현재

뱅크시(Banksy), 영국, 화가, 1974-현재

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뱅크시(Banksy), 영국, 화가, 1974-현재

뱅크시(Banksy), 영국, 화가, 1974-현재

뱅크시(Banksy), 영국, 화가, 1974-현재

뱅크시(Banksy), 영국, 화가, 1974-현재

뱅크시(Banksy), 영국, 화가, 1974-현재

뱅크시(Banksy), 영국, 화가, 1974-현재

그래피티 아티스트 'Banksy'는 지난달 초 런던의 한 주택가 벽의 기둥 위에다 아슬아슬하게 서있는 산양을 그렸습니다. 이튿날엔 첼시에서 코끼리 두 마리를, 다음날에는 철도 다리에 매달린 원숭이 세 마리를 그렸습니다.

 

그다음 날 '뱅크시'는 낡은 접시형 위성 안테나에다 달을 향해 울부짖는 늑대를 그려 넣고, 인스타그램에다 이 작품을 공개했는데, 불과 2분 만에 이 작품은 도난당하고 말았답니다.

 

그 이후에도, 생선가게 간판에서는 펠리컨이, 비어있는 광고판에서는 스트레칭하는 고양이가 나타났답니다. 7일째에는 런던 시내의 경찰 부스에서 헤엄치는 피라냐 떼의 스티커가 발견되었으며, 8일째에는 버려진 자동차를 짝으로 착각한 코뿔소가 등장했답니다.

 

마지막 9일째에는 런던동물원의 셔터문에 '뱅크시'의 작품이 나타났습니다. 고릴라가 동물원의 셔터문을 들어 올려서 바다사자와 새를 풀어주는 모습이랍니다.

 

                                                                                              About Him

 

Banksy, The Artist, is often neglected amidst the sensationalism of his activism, disruption, mysterious identity, and caustic views of the world. Much has been said over the past 20 years in an attempt to define what he does and why and how he observes the world with such an acute eye. Whether his attitude is sarcastic, truthful, pessimistic, or just the result of an upbringing surrounded by political challenges that begged for visual intervention and commentary, he is very much his own person, whoever he is. The power of his messages obscures the skill set required to succeed visually and conceptually in a variety of media, ranging from street graffiti to posters to prints to paintings and other objects (a ship, for example). Today, the message is again eclipsed by the art market; the very capitalist institution he criticized has become a mechanism where money actually contributes to that message and validates its ridiculousness. The poor street artist of unknown name commands extraordinary amounts of money! The hypocrisy and the irony are just what the artist feeds on and puts him in a position to review the art world that he once resisted from within.

 

A study of Banksy’s visual vocabulary and its development over the years begins with markings on public (or private) surfaces illegally and secretly. Ranging from small utilitarian street objects to billboard-sized murals, Banksy has taken graffiti to a new dimension. The word graffiti originates from Greek γράφειν—graphein—meaning “to write.” Today, graffiti has entered into art history’s rhetoric as more than random letters or markings and applied to what are now considered works of art. Scratched into the surface or painted or marked with anything like coal, chalk, paint, graffiti is often accompanied by other types of coverage, typically from spray paint. Called “tagging” by the artists who create personal identifications to sign their work and mark territory, individual signatures have become iconic additions to the walls as the artists flaunt their illegal intrusions.

 

Banksy is no exception. He has developed a unique style of intervention with the use of stencils that are in stark contrast to spontaneous markings or the tags of graffiti. Photographic in quality, the stencils appear life-like, further confusing the spatial construct of the imagery on a wall. Stencils are just one type of remarkable image-making that propels Banksy’s works into a myriad of message-driving applications and into the world of art. Ready or not, here he comes.

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