The fact that it failed to completely shred actually makes this a much darker story in my mind. Instead of the self-destructing painting being a middle-finger to the high art world, its only partial shredding has made it far more valuable. Instead of a clever prank designed to humiliate the auctioneers, its actually a spectacle for everyone in that room.
It's another satanic ritual for the elite, nothing more. They can just easily manipulate the masses into thinking this was somehow FU gesture to the elite lmfao
I believe he only INTENDED IT to be half shredded. But imagine what you'd have bought with your £850,000 if it HAD shredded fully!!! Two handfuls of paper ribbons. lol.
@@TabascoSour I'm pointing out the juxtaposition of what that person is saying (everyone's got a chance to win at auctions) and the insert of the guide price of the auction (£200,000 - £300,000) showing that what the person said isn't exactly true.
+Grant's Gear And even in "everyday" auctions the same still rings true. For a practical example: Try bidding on an eBay bargain with a reasonable/fair price max bid, then watch the snipers all pile in at T-5 secs! :-o :-p
0:45 “yeah so the artist put the frame on as well. We get that quite often with Banksy, you know. He quite likes the romanticism of, you know, having a very ornate, national gallery-esque frame” 0:55 HAHAHAHAHA
0:45 “Yeah so the artist put the frame on as well. We get that quite often with Banksy, you know. He quite likes the romanticism of, you know, having a very ornate, National Gallery-esque frame."
A man after my own heart. Cutting through the materialism, commoditisation and pretentiousness of the art world with your talent, sense of fun and satire. Key attributes for any real artist.
Yup. Someone is faking their ability to solder as anyone who can solder would never do this. QED, must be Banksy. Note the skin problems also. Some careful analysis of this movie should provide many hints to the location filmed. I see the drive belt was also changed. Probably, it's that which failed. He needs to find a better engineer. I liked the "L'" left markers.
I don't disagree with that. It's god level trolling because it turned the art world on its head, it makes so much commentary with one shred and without saying anything - the value of art, art as currency, what constitutes value. The fact that it is worth more speaks to where the value of art is, which is a lot about narrative attached to it as well as provenance.
I wonder if original videos of the shredding might have their own currency and value. Are people at the auction allowed to video? The value of the art being sold is it's authenticity and it's rarity/scarcity. Being there at that moment in person has it's own value now and people can say that they were really there when Banksy shredder made history. I think it would have worked if the shredder didn't fail and wonder still if it intentionally failed to completely shred. Evidence of Banksey true intention to shred or not to shred is in the possession of the owner of the work now and only the owner and banksey really know if it was meant to fail half way through shredding. This makes the new owner and banksey something like collaborators in the artwork experience itself. Banksey made the new owner of the art an intimate co-creator of the meaning of the art. I'm truly impressed.
@Radioactive Snake What happened at Sotheby's is at least the proof that at some point he made that frame and it was working. So who cares if this video was reenacted (fake). @s h a d ø w b a n n e d Reenacting something you actually did isn't really a lie. And that it only shredded half way absolutely makes sense. Some people argued that after so many years the battery should be empty. We also see that he used a quiet hefty battery. Fully and freshly charged it could shred that painting many times. But even that one loses power over the years. But apparently just so much that it still has enough energy to shred the painting at least halfway. You may ask "But isn't that a suspicious coincidence that after a few years the battery was empty exactly after shredding the painting halfway?" The whole system didn't actively draw any power from the motors over the years but when in that condition the motors suddenly draw actual power from the battery it can't keep up for very long.
Thank you for your art. My son passed away 2 years ago from an undiagnosed heart condition. Smiling is hard these days. Your artwork makes me smile. Thank you and sending the best to you and your family.
"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. It has an estimated selling price of £4-6m".
Yes!!! Thank you for keeping your art for everyone! This was a win for the dreamers and wonders of the world that have been affected by your art! Thank you.
That is super badass and makes me so happy. Especially considering the person who bought it decided to pay and keep ... full participation in the human art experiment!! It's kind of better that it didn't finish shredding; leaves a record of the entire event
It makes sense why it only went partially through. I don’t know exactly the length of time it sat in the gallery. I read it was like a year or more. If it sat all that time ready to be remotely triggered then the battery was losing charge. It had enough charge to power the shredding motor about half way and keep the beeper sound going. Otherwise it just happen to jam. Either from dust, material left over from test runs, dried up oil on the blades, or combo of all of it. Maybe it’s due to difference in frame rate but the final shred appears to move slower then the test shred. That could be a sign the batter had weakened too. Great work. Some of the best things come from accidents.
Not sure what to make of this whole stunt, but I like it! In the end, it doesn't matter if Sotheby's was involved or if parts of the video was faked, or if it was meant to stop half way; as a stunt and a prank and as performance art, it worked remarkably well. People who call him a street artist miss the point that while he's used street art, and started out that way, he moved well beyond that years ago, even if he employs art on the street still and use the medium of stencil prints and spray paint at times. "Pure" graffiti artists may hate him for selling out, or just for being successful, but then he was never a graffiti artist. The whole Robbo thing was hilarious to watch. His mockumentary "exit through the gift shop" raises more questions than it answers, and is fascinating on multiple levels, seeming to prank the viewer, as it gets increasingly bizarre. These two clips are mere pieces to a puzzle he chooses to show us with what appears to be deliberate red herrings, perhaps to see who pays attention, such as the knife blades laid flat on the back as seen in the first video and briefly in this one which appear to have no function, and in this video holding the soldering iron wrong. He never claims to have built it himself, though clearly somebody did, so he could easily have filmed whoever did, as clearly a degree of engineering and workmanship has gone into building it. The new owner could easily open it up to see how it is put together, but that would devalue a now extremely expensive work of art, which is both a visual and performance piece now. To that end, stopping halfway worked in it's favour, and seems designed that way, even if this video claims it wasn't. It's become part of art history now, whatever it's intention. Of course, while it is said it was bought from Banksy in 2006, who is to say that itself is not a red herring and is a recent piece, the filming is professional and digital. As others have pointed out, it is unlikely a batterypack that size hooked into a wireless receiver could last 12 year on standby. Then again, the video claims it wasn't meant to stop halfway. It doesn't really matter, it all adds to the mystery, and people love mysteries and following clues and spotting red herrings. Great art makes you think and question, and this piece certainly did that, whatever the truth of it's creation is. I wouldn't be at all surprised if years from now a group of people came forth admitting that Banksy is not one person, but a composite character used by all of them as one giant performance piece, hence outwitting anyone trying to figure out who he is.
plot twist: banksy bought his own painting back at 860k thru someone else, shredded it immediately to prove a point about auctions, 4x his investment and gets a good laugh while increasing his fame... genius.
I'm left feeling like this was more of a comment on how the culture of the auction house has become so focused on the sale that the art no longer matters, and can be disposed of, in essence once the performance of the auctioneer and the bidding has been finished. Right down to the sales pitchy nonesense that was being spewed about the frame. People came for the spectacle first and foremost, and the artworks for sale have become props in their theatre. The destruction of that beautiful and innocent piece ruthlessly drives this home. Just brilliant. Thank you for this.
@@thebrokenlens8055 The left hand is holding the wire in place, the right hand is holding below the handle of the soldering iron. This bit gets hot too.
@@mickmaphari6606 At in excess of 150 degrees centigrade, you're welcome to hold it like that if you wish.. I just hope you aren't emotionally attached to your fingerprints. 2 seconds can cause a significant burn at that temperature.
@@hippopotamus86 no they didnt and its fake 100% why HIS frame was not in the middle like they did with all others, why is this video fake with him grabbing the soldering iron by the heated part
Banksy on his game - “People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”
Yep! Always amused me to see my dad shred small quantities of bills etc and took about three times the time I could do it with my sharp scissors! Also I once came across a supposedly shredded Doctors patient list complete with the drugs they were taking- some famous ( in my city at least ) names! Thankfully for him and them I pulled it to pieces thoroughly and placed it in a public bin! Cross-cut your shreddies peeps! Perhaps Banksy's next work will be confetti? We all might gain a foothold in a Banksy collection then!
Rick Hoare Yeah 3000 pieces of an original banksy sold on eBay.... for £1. Then comes the problem in stitching the entire painting together to actually see what it is...like a puzzle. I could be banksy....I could be? Hmmmmm
I love the idea of creating something with the intention of it being destroyed... I’ve been making things for my kids for years that I hope they’ll destroy and find hidden things... I fantasize about them having children that destroy something I made them as a child... to find the hidden things inside... or the item going through years being passed down... I just love this so so much!
I respect people like Banksy. They returned the Art from galleries to mankind. It's the art that everyone can sense and feel. Nice painting and nice action too.
Ha, so that's what was meant to happen! I bet you were gutted it didn't work on the day. It still caused quite the reaction anyway though. Such a cool idea!
The funny part is I work nearby. Seeing these rich stuck up people who can afford anything yet waste money on frivolous things all the time. They are unappreciative of the free money gives you. So this was actually brilliant to see the looks on their faces then the paint shredded.
This is a recent video. That is a JMT Lithium Motorcycle Battery, which was only released in 2014. The picture is supposed to have been created in 2006. Either this video has been created for 'demonstration purposes', or the original picture was swapped out with the one in this video. Discuss.
Absolutely, the blades in the first part of the video are completely wrong and the battery is far too new a technology for the 2006 date. Good fun, but fake.
maybe it was put back into "banksy's" possession for a bit before that auction? One painting doesn't always have to have only one fame ever, sometimes it might get reframed, which gives banksy an opening. Who knows, someone might have gotten in touch with banksy?
Nick Bernstein it might have had the opposite effect. Now that this event is part of art history the piece is arguably more valuable. The buyer just made a huge profit.
That might have been the case if he had withdrawn the work. He didn't though. The buyer was allowed to proceed & keep it & now its worth more. This cannot be seen as pouring scorn on the art market world.
Thus destroying the whole point of the artwork. Banksy is anti art world, he fed it instead and you are celebrating his failure as what he wanted to destroy
the whole "Banksy thing" is just a SCAM ! All "his" books were published from the early 90's by the same big corporate related to the biggest TV communication lobby : RTL They are just a few billionaires making a mockery from people believing that some lonely artist could stay anonymous while exposing very expensive art pieces such as the melted /folded phone booth in the 90's. Someone needs to have a lot of money to be able to mandate such expensive art pieces to a fundry, hire a crane, install it in the middle of London, and come back later to take away, « anonymously » Meanwhile people love to feel special while thinking "THEY think out of the box trough the message of this so called artist who's news are served on a silver plate by the mass media" because they know this "subversive" artist trough corporate news. Everything is just controlled sothat people think some "robin hood" or "super hero" could hide from the mass and build and expose expensive street pranks. The same people go back to their regular job, consumerism habbits, far away from the so called subversive message of those prank "artworks", they need to think someone like them could go away with it, trick every one, and then, they simply go back to their little bubble, their self sufficient consummer life, their safe space. People love to believe that some super hero could get away in society anonymously living a double life (like Clark Kent and Batman), they love to believe in fairy tales while waiting there, working in a peaceful anesthesia for big corporates. Banksy is fake, but people love to need superheroes they can relate on to cover with "fun" their little life. Sodethebys is also part of the whole trickery : they just proove that an invented artist can be worth millions on the Art market while not exisiting. Its just money loundry.
RTL also owns several spin off websites, television groups and TV shows such as american Idol, look this is also part of the scam : czcams.com/video/_U45u1bgmcM/video.html
So this is whole thing was obviously a set up with Sotheby's knowledge: (i) when you pick the frame up, there must be a big slit in the bottom for the painting to come through, through which the cutting blades and shredding mechanism would be visible. No way you miss that when inspecting the frame. (ii) the painting was made in 2006 and given away and we are supposed to believe that after TWELVE YEARS it has a battery that has enough power to receive a radio signal AND actually shred the painting - no chance, unless someone (i.e Sotheyby's...) let him replace the battery from time to time. (iii) if the shredder was triggered by a standard radio remote control, surely in 12 years it would have picked up a stray radio signal that would have set it off? Unless he made a bespoke encrypted transmitter or something (which seems unlikely).So no way it would have lasted 12 years. (iv) the painting was hung on the wall at the auction - normally Sotheby's put paintings like this on a stand. Why treat this "ordinary" painting any differently? (v) the painting was sold at the end of the auction. Coincidence? Maybe...but slightly suspicious. Also the "making of" video is also fake, given that: (a) at 17 seconds in he is holding a soldering iron BY THE HOT END (b) this video was allegedly made in 2006 and filmed in 720p resolution....again not impossible, but cause for suspicion.
J. Romero They stated before the auction that the painting had been inspected and authenticated by Banksy's crew. Which would be a great chance to swap out the frame with a previously made self-destruct frame with a fresh battery. If the half way stop wasn't planned, maybe the battery dropped below 50% while waiting for the auction day.
Man I could feel it in my bones you meant for it to shred all the way, it would have been so glorious to watch the pieces fall like pasta noodles. Thank you for being so clever and giving me a reason to believe the art world isn't all about profits.
This backfired pretty hard, huh? Not only the painting wasn't fully shredded, but it even doubled its price and now all the bourgeoisie want it and will pay and speculate even more. Good job, man. Good job.
nmlss so you’re blaming Banksy bc the elite want to spend their money on art? How did it backfire exactly? The art industry is hard to comprehend to some ppl but it’s simple supply and demand. That was what Exit Through the Gift Shop was about. It’s not like Banksy is pricing his art, it’s completely controlled by the buyers.
Love how the man selling it also says "its a very decent price, everyone's got a chance" 😂 i possibly have about £4 to my name atm! Can i buy it for £4 please?
At who? Nothing really happened here. The artist took the money from the buyer. Banksy shredded (albeit partially) an artwork & sold it anyway. Now he's drip feeding information to keep the publicity machine turning, unlike the shredder it's in full working order
Clearly Sotheby's were in on this stunt along with Banksy. Either that or their auction house security procedures are a disgrace. Imagine if it had been a remote controlled IED inside the frame instead of a shredder!
Happy for the buyer's smart purchase! Don't take out the paper, a big frame to embrace the whole thing, the original frame is part of the art! It is a brilliant art - all the thing happened to this picture that day is an art!
It was a fucking funny thing to do. I had wondered if it had died half way through the shredding though... Pity. All that money and all that greed and there's people starving
ahr1man It's been said if you shared all the money out equally, within five years the poor would be poor again and the rich rich. These people have on the whole made money through careful investment, hard work, taking risks others wouldn't, and been well rewarded for it. They pay tax, why shouldn't they enjoy their earnings? Even by buying art they are supporting an industry and the jobs it provides.
It's totally fake. It's a 12 year old painting and not in Banksy's hands for 12 years. Baterries linked to a receiver awaiting a signal cannot last more than a few years.
Banksy is the only one that gives me hope into something, with his ideas, his art, his actions! Thanks for showing me that art is just another way to produce change, a change that we really need in this society; just thanks Banksy.
"The director's cut". What a perfect name
Also shred the love
Really? A bit on the nose don't you think?
except that's not the name
The directors half cut retains full value.
"The Director 's half cut"
The fact that it failed to completely shred actually makes this a much darker story in my mind. Instead of the self-destructing painting being a middle-finger to the high art world, its only partial shredding has made it far more valuable. Instead of a clever prank designed to humiliate the auctioneers, its actually a spectacle for everyone in that room.
No this just makes it that much clearer that the emperor has no clothes on... cuz its no longer an artwork, its another overprized trash art piece..
@@Validboy it’s meant to be a middle finger to rich people who buy up talented artists paintings and are never seen again.
It's another satanic ritual for the elite, nothing more. They can just easily manipulate the masses into thinking this was somehow FU gesture to the elite lmfao
I believe he only INTENDED IT to be half shredded. But imagine what you'd have bought with your £850,000 if it HAD shredded fully!!! Two handfuls of paper ribbons. lol.
@@thedolphin5428 Did you watch the entire video? Lol.
1:05 "That's the fun of auctions, everyone's got a chance" Followed by a cut to the estimated price of £200,000 - £300,000.
Dude that thing went way up in value after that what are you talking about?
@@TabascoSour I'm pointing out the juxtaposition of what that person is saying (everyone's got a chance to win at auctions) and the insert of the guide price of the auction (£200,000 - £300,000) showing that what the person said isn't exactly true.
+Grant's Gear And even in "everyday" auctions the same still rings true.
For a practical example: Try bidding on an eBay bargain with a reasonable/fair price max bid, then watch the snipers all pile in at T-5 secs! :-o :-p
@@ddragon8154 And that's why I don't bother with auctions on ebay anymore. I just stick to buy it now.
Almost as if the editor of the video intended to show this contrast...
the fact that it shredded only half way through makes it even more unique
Clearly on purpose, activated and stopped...the video dont lie here with that remote. Safed them to have to mark each and every peace on authenticity.
@@03333032 2:36
I want to see how Banksy built the shredder, like complete guide. Also what are those blades for(0:15,0:16)?
0:45 “yeah so the artist put the frame on as well. We get that quite often with Banksy, you know. He quite likes the romanticism of, you know, having a very ornate, national gallery-esque frame”
0:55 HAHAHAHAHA
I noticed that too! Perfect editing!
that laugh is something I've only seen in sitcoms.
0:45 “Yeah so the artist put the frame on as well. We get that quite often with Banksy, you know. He quite likes the romanticism of, you know, having a very ornate, National Gallery-esque frame."
Thanks - I fixed mine, if you don't mind :)
Not at all! :-)
This crowd, these people seem so alien, it's unreal.
Exactly. It's the accent that makes them so alien.
Where do they live, what do they do for a living? How did they end up at this auction? So many questions ...
What do they know? Do they know things? Let's find out!
Money.
I seen some sexy ass rich looking women idk what your talking about . Lol
A man after my own heart. Cutting through the materialism, commoditisation and pretentiousness of the art world with your talent, sense of fun and satire. Key attributes for any real artist.
But he does things you do nothing but text
he was at the auction and nobody knew. i want artists to remain anonymous like him.
Pranksy 🤭
Spanksy
balloon didn't shread, Ban sky.
🤣
Well done Banksy! GOLD!
Thanks bro
@Trumped are you saying the auction team was involved in that or they had to x-ray check every piece of art comes in?
At 00:16 the guy is holding the hot bit of the soldering iron....!
Yup. Someone is faking their ability to solder as anyone who can solder would never do this. QED, must be Banksy. Note the skin problems also. Some careful analysis of this movie should provide many hints to the location filmed. I see the drive belt was also changed. Probably, it's that which failed. He needs to find a better engineer. I liked the "L'" left markers.
Also - the cutting blades are laid flat - should be facing down - this behind the scenes video is partially real - partially hollywood.
The tip isn't the only part of the iron that gets hot - the rest of the metal does too. He would burn his fingers if it was plugged in...
No wonder why the shredder failed.
It looks like it on from the camera's angle...
The anti art industry leader has surrendered his position in one push of a button
sure.
Fancy seeing you here!?
Jeez. The both of you here?
up the irons bro!
2:27 you can hear a man whispering "lets go"
Director’s *_Cut_*
Zing
Ba-dum tsss
*Half Cut
They know NOTHING about real cutting! My axe will dismember any silly overpriced painting.
I await your orders. ... No.. I will do as I SEE FIT!
Get out
The Art is in the crowds reactions. Hilarious
He wants people to just love art. I love this guy. He's using his beautiful artwork, to make the world a better place.
God level trolling. Brilliant
How, its worth more now.... lol
I don't disagree with that. It's god level trolling because it turned the art world on its head, it makes so much commentary with one shred and without saying anything - the value of art, art as currency, what constitutes value. The fact that it is worth more speaks to where the value of art is, which is a lot about narrative attached to it as well as provenance.
God level marketing. There's no way the auction house wasn't in on this.
I wonder if original videos of the shredding might have their own currency and value. Are people at the auction allowed to video? The value of the art being sold is it's authenticity and it's rarity/scarcity. Being there at that moment in person has it's own value now and people can say that they were really there when Banksy shredder made history. I think it would have worked if the shredder didn't fail and wonder still if it intentionally failed to completely shred. Evidence of Banksey true intention to shred or not to shred is in the possession of the owner of the work now and only the owner and banksey really know if it was meant to fail half way through shredding. This makes the new owner and banksey something like collaborators in the artwork experience itself. Banksey made the new owner of the art an intimate co-creator of the meaning of the art. I'm truly impressed.
How lmao it’s still in tact and it’s worth more.
0:17 holding the hot end of a soldering iron? 🙄
they faked the making of it just for video
Nice catch
At the end, they say it was supposed to shred 100%. Probably another lie. But that's okay.
Banksy is auch a massive troll lmao
@Radioactive Snake
What happened at Sotheby's is at least the proof that at some point he made that frame and it was working. So who cares if this video was reenacted (fake).
@s h a d ø w b a n n e d
Reenacting something you actually did isn't really a lie.
And that it only shredded half way absolutely makes sense. Some people argued that after so many years the battery should be empty. We also see that he used a quiet hefty battery. Fully and freshly charged it could shred that painting many times. But even that one loses power over the years. But apparently just so much that it still has enough energy to shred the painting at least halfway.
You may ask "But isn't that a suspicious coincidence that after a few years the battery was empty exactly after shredding the painting halfway?"
The whole system didn't actively draw any power from the motors over the years but when in that condition the motors suddenly draw actual power from the battery it can't keep up for very long.
00:58 did anyone else see that alien creature extend its appendage and quickly snap up that bit of meat from the platter going by?
Can't blame her, that was her food for the month
i liked this part best myself as well
Oi! Don't be dissin' me mum, you! ;)
hahaha sniped
noisyturtle models they’re so hungry
The man laughing at 2:23 while everyone else is freaking out cracks me up
That’s Banksy
@@Mr.BobsDog No..he's Nikita Kruschev
Thank you for your art. My son passed away 2 years ago from an undiagnosed heart condition. Smiling is hard these days. Your artwork makes me smile. Thank you and sending the best to you and your family.
Your impressed by stencil work......yea you don't k ow what true art is except the name of the cheap artist.
@MelEveritt: I am sorry for your loss and can't even begin to imagine what you are going through, I hope you have found a way to heal.
I feel bad for the auctioneer. He looked like his soul left his body when it began to shred. I couldn’t imagine explaining that to the buyer lol
Was the buyer able to pull out of his bid?
It’s probably worth a whole lot more now because of this stunt...ironically.
its worth around 5 times more than originally
@@lp.shakur It just sold for 18.5M pounds, unreal.
@@cowswirl The original buyer sold it an auction today. Went for 16 million pounds. Made a nice profit.
"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. It has an estimated selling price of £4-6m".
19mmmm
@@Jeewhiz81 I went to 15.
@@MUNKSTAR mmmm is Imperial.
Just sold for 16 m
Yes!!! Thank you for keeping your art for everyone! This was a win for the dreamers and wonders of the world that have been affected by your art! Thank you.
Everyone? Not even most people can afford this.
Nice of him to not cut the artwork completely. He did half the painting. Raised the value x4
It was supposed to shred completely
"Nice of him"
did you not watch the entire vid? It was obviously supposed to shred the whole painting
probably the best thing that's happened in the art world...well done Sir.👍
That is super badass and makes me so happy. Especially considering the person who bought it decided to pay and keep ... full participation in the human art experiment!! It's kind of better that it didn't finish shredding; leaves a record of the entire event
2:43 That little snicker is the purest of gold.
It makes sense why it only went partially through. I don’t know exactly the length of time it sat in the gallery. I read it was like a year or more. If it sat all that time ready to be remotely triggered then the battery was losing charge. It had enough charge to power the shredding motor about half way and keep the beeper sound going. Otherwise it just happen to jam. Either from dust, material left over from test runs, dried up oil on the blades, or combo of all of it. Maybe it’s due to difference in frame rate but the final shred appears to move slower then the test shred. That could be a sign the batter had weakened too. Great work. Some of the best things come from accidents.
That's why you leave batter to fish and chips only.
Not sure what to make of this whole stunt, but I like it! In the end, it doesn't matter if Sotheby's was involved or if parts of the video was faked, or if it was meant to stop half way; as a stunt and a prank and as performance art, it worked remarkably well. People who call him a street artist miss the point that while he's used street art, and started out that way, he moved well beyond that years ago, even if he employs art on the street still and use the medium of stencil prints and spray paint at times. "Pure" graffiti artists may hate him for selling out, or just for being successful, but then he was never a graffiti artist. The whole Robbo thing was hilarious to watch. His mockumentary "exit through the gift shop" raises more questions than it answers, and is fascinating on multiple levels, seeming to prank the viewer, as it gets increasingly bizarre.
These two clips are mere pieces to a puzzle he chooses to show us with what appears to be deliberate red herrings, perhaps to see who pays attention, such as the knife blades laid flat on the back as seen in the first video and briefly in this one which appear to have no function, and in this video holding the soldering iron wrong. He never claims to have built it himself, though clearly somebody did, so he could easily have filmed whoever did, as clearly a degree of engineering and workmanship has gone into building it. The new owner could easily open it up to see how it is put together, but that would devalue a now extremely expensive work of art, which is both a visual and performance piece now. To that end, stopping halfway worked in it's favour, and seems designed that way, even if this video claims it wasn't. It's become part of art history now, whatever it's intention.
Of course, while it is said it was bought from Banksy in 2006, who is to say that itself is not a red herring and is a recent piece, the filming is professional and digital. As others have pointed out, it is unlikely a batterypack that size hooked into a wireless receiver could last 12 year on standby. Then again, the video claims it wasn't meant to stop halfway. It doesn't really matter, it all adds to the mystery, and people love mysteries and following clues and spotting red herrings. Great art makes you think and question, and this piece certainly did that, whatever the truth of it's creation is.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if years from now a group of people came forth admitting that Banksy is not one person, but a composite character used by all of them as one giant performance piece, hence outwitting anyone trying to figure out who he is.
Martin Andersen
Well said.
My first thought was that he/she is them/us.
It was absolute genius, without equal. Thank you for continuing to be 100% original
He hates the art world, this was meant to be a rebellion
The shrieks of the yuppies is art in itself.
When something is rare, people will pay a lot of money for it. Unless it is a medical condition.
They'll end up paying a lot for that, too.
@@pcbliss To get rid of it.
plot twist: banksy bought his own painting back at 860k thru someone else, shredded it immediately to prove a point about auctions, 4x his investment and gets a good laugh while increasing his fame... genius.
are you my brother?
And last year it was resold a second time sold for $25 million 😂
I'm left feeling like this was more of a comment on how the culture of the auction house has become so focused on the sale that the art no longer matters, and can be disposed of, in essence once the performance of the auctioneer and the bidding has been finished. Right down to the sales pitchy nonesense that was being spewed about the frame. People came for the spectacle first and foremost, and the artworks for sale have become props in their theatre. The destruction of that beautiful and innocent piece ruthlessly drives this home. Just brilliant. Thank you for this.
Amazing!!!
Reliable Engineering is hard!
Be proud of your local engineer/craftsmen!
*your finger ok though? after burning it on the soldering iron*
he is holding the wire, not the end of the soldering iron..!
@@thebrokenlens8055 The left hand is holding the wire in place, the right hand is holding below the handle of the soldering iron. This bit gets hot too.
You need to hold it like that for precision, and if you're used to soldering you don't need to hold it for long.
@@mickmaphari6606 At in excess of 150 degrees centigrade, you're welcome to hold it like that if you wish.. I just hope you aren't emotionally attached to your fingerprints. 2 seconds can cause a significant burn at that temperature.
@Jennifer Evens atleast he wont be leaving finger prints anywhere
0:56 the typical im rich with no worries laugh
The spectacle is the greatest expert in all of human history to integrate dissidents (specially ideas)
That fake scene with the controller tho 2:04
What makes you think that? Security witnessed it.
What makes you think that
@@hippopotamus86 no they didnt and its fake 100% why HIS frame was not in the middle like they did with all others, why is this video fake with him grabbing the soldering iron by the heated part
Very good marketing idea. I am sorry banksy, but you are part of the game.
In that he's winning it.
Banksy on his game - “People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”
in that his "art" are shit prints and anyone who actually likes banksy is a hipster virgin from soho that votes labour
@@LaSignoraCeppo sei italiana! Vieni a vedere il mio canale se ti va 😁
Yep, he seems to be now.
I also have a shredder that refuses to shred a complete piece of paper....bloody thing.
Yep! Always amused me to see my dad shred small quantities of bills etc and took about three times the time I could do it with my sharp scissors! Also I once came across a supposedly shredded Doctors patient list complete with the drugs they were taking- some famous ( in my city at least ) names! Thankfully for him and them I pulled it to pieces thoroughly and placed it in a public bin! Cross-cut your shreddies peeps! Perhaps Banksy's next work will be confetti? We all might gain a foothold in a Banksy collection then!
Rick Hoare Yeah 3000 pieces of an original banksy sold on eBay.... for £1. Then comes the problem in stitching the entire painting together to actually see what it is...like a puzzle. I could be banksy....I could be? Hmmmmm
@@Harrysound
Problem with Banksy's work is that a large proportion of mugs would end up with blank pieces of paper! Not even any black or red paint!
The look on the auctioneer while he realizes that stunt just made the painting worth millions instead of thousands 😤
I love the idea of creating something with the intention of it being destroyed... I’ve been making things for my kids for years that I hope they’ll destroy and find hidden things... I fantasize about them having children that destroy something I made them as a child... to find the hidden things inside... or the item going through years being passed down... I just love this so so much!
I respect people like Banksy. They returned the Art from galleries to mankind. It's the art that everyone can sense and feel. Nice painting and nice action too.
Providing entertainment and excitement to the vapid elite
I'm not particularly vapid and definitely not elite and it got me some entertainment. :3
I love your tenacity. You’re a genius Banksy 🕺🌹💋every shredder I’ve ever had gives out after a few uses too.
Ha, so that's what was meant to happen! I bet you were gutted it didn't work on the day. It still caused quite the reaction anyway though. Such a cool idea!
It's all planed.
He wanted to destroy the painting but now it's only worth more
The funny part is I work nearby. Seeing these rich stuck up people who can afford anything yet waste money on frivolous things all the time. They are unappreciative of the free money gives you. So this was actually brilliant to see the looks on their faces then the paint shredded.
Always loved his attitude towards art. Fantastic artist.
This is a recent video. That is a JMT Lithium Motorcycle Battery, which was only released in 2014.
The picture is supposed to have been created in 2006.
Either this video has been created for 'demonstration purposes', or the original picture was swapped out with the one in this video.
Discuss.
Absolutely, the blades in the first part of the video are completely wrong and the battery is far too new a technology for the 2006 date. Good fun, but fake.
Finally! Had to scroll through a lot of crap to find some actual discussion on the battery!
banksy could have been friends with the seller who let him do it
Was there a claim somewhere that the shredder was made at the same time as the picture, or am I missing something?
maybe it was put back into "banksy's" possession for a bit before that auction? One painting doesn't always have to have only one fame ever, sometimes it might get reframed, which gives banksy an opening. Who knows, someone might have gotten in touch with banksy?
Couldn’t think of a better way to troll the bourgeois. Well done.
Nick Bernstein it might have had the opposite effect. Now that this event is part of art history the piece is arguably more valuable. The buyer just made a huge profit.
still leaves a message
troll the bourgeois? He's part of them lol
This isn't the bourgeois, this is the upper class.
That might have been the case if he had withdrawn the work. He didn't though. The buyer was allowed to proceed & keep it & now its worth more. This cannot be seen as pouring scorn on the art market world.
Brilliant. Instead of destroying the piece, it turned into a completely different work of art. I LOVE THIS.
Thus destroying the whole point of the artwork. Banksy is anti art world, he fed it instead and you are celebrating his failure as what he wanted to destroy
@@HDTomo LOL. Please take your whiny jealousy elsewhere, little boy.
😂 I love this 👌👌👌👌Halfway in the frame makes it even cooler. That is True art
“That’s the fun of auction, you know, *everyone* has a chance.” What world do you live in?
A world where whoever commits the most money gets to buy the product
@@billowen3285 that means only one person has really a chance
@@besi5320 If you believe it is valued higher than everyone else does, then you will win the auction
Well this just confirms that Banksy is a collective, rather than just a single person.
the whole "Banksy thing" is just a SCAM !
All "his" books were published from the early 90's by the same big corporate related to the biggest TV communication lobby : RTL
They are just a few billionaires making a mockery from people believing that some lonely artist could stay anonymous while exposing very expensive art pieces such as the melted /folded phone booth in the 90's. Someone needs to have a lot of money to be able to mandate such expensive art pieces to a fundry, hire a crane, install it in the middle of London, and come back later to take away, « anonymously »
Meanwhile people love to feel special while thinking "THEY think out of the box trough the message of this so called artist who's news are served on a silver plate by the mass media" because they know this "subversive" artist trough corporate news. Everything is just controlled sothat people think some "robin hood" or "super hero" could hide from the mass and build and expose expensive street pranks. The same people go back to their regular job, consumerism habbits, far away from the so called subversive message of those prank "artworks", they need to think someone like them could go away with it, trick every one, and then, they simply go back to their little bubble, their self sufficient consummer life, their safe space. People love to believe that some super hero could get away in society anonymously living a double life (like Clark Kent and Batman), they love to believe in fairy tales while waiting there, working in a peaceful anesthesia for big corporates.
Banksy is fake, but people love to need superheroes they can relate on to cover with "fun" their little life. Sodethebys is also part of the whole trickery : they just proove that an invented artist can be worth millions on the Art market while not exisiting. Its just money loundry.
One vandal or a bunch of 'em. It is overrated nonsense.
@@etienneamien isnt RTL german?
no its a huge worldwide corporate group
RTL also owns several spin off websites, television groups and TV shows such as american Idol, look this is also part of the scam : czcams.com/video/_U45u1bgmcM/video.html
So this is whole thing was obviously a set up with Sotheby's knowledge:
(i) when you pick the frame up, there must be a big slit in the bottom for the painting to come through, through which the cutting blades and shredding mechanism would be visible. No way you miss that when inspecting the frame.
(ii) the painting was made in 2006 and given away and we are supposed to believe that after TWELVE YEARS it has a battery that has enough power to receive a radio signal AND actually shred the painting - no chance, unless someone (i.e Sotheyby's...) let him replace the battery from time to time.
(iii) if the shredder was triggered by a standard radio remote control, surely in 12 years it would have picked up a stray radio signal that would have set it off? Unless he made a bespoke encrypted transmitter or something (which seems unlikely).So no way it would have lasted 12 years.
(iv) the painting was hung on the wall at the auction - normally Sotheby's put paintings like this on a stand. Why treat this "ordinary" painting any differently?
(v) the painting was sold at the end of the auction. Coincidence? Maybe...but slightly suspicious.
Also the "making of" video is also fake, given that:
(a) at 17 seconds in he is holding a soldering iron BY THE HOT END
(b) this video was allegedly made in 2006 and filmed in 720p resolution....again not impossible, but cause for suspicion.
Sotheby's has confirmed that they were in on it.
J. Romero They stated before the auction that the painting had been inspected and authenticated by Banksy's crew. Which would be a great chance to swap out the frame with a previously made self-destruct frame with a fresh battery. If the half way stop wasn't planned, maybe the battery dropped below 50% while waiting for the auction day.
Interesting - what's the source? Yesterday they said the opposite.
Gotcha Fake news!
The seller was in on it, but Sotheby's was not.
Love that ! Thanks Bansky for this moment !
Bravo! Job well done. Even w/shredder malfunctioning it was genius.
"As it is, these remain (...) and the greatest of them is love"
0:16 Your soldering technique is truly extraordinary!
Haha! At least I wasn't the only one who noticed it :-)
Thanks
Banksy is a robot and/or alien: confirmed!
Absolutely brilliant
Man I could feel it in my bones you meant for it to shred all the way, it would have been so glorious to watch the pieces fall like pasta noodles. Thank you for being so clever and giving me a reason to believe the art world isn't all about profits.
This backfired pretty hard, huh? Not only the painting wasn't fully shredded, but it even doubled its price and now all the bourgeoisie want it and will pay and speculate even more. Good job, man. Good job.
nmlss so you’re blaming Banksy bc the elite want to spend their money on art? How did it backfire exactly? The art industry is hard to comprehend to some ppl but it’s simple supply and demand. That was what Exit Through the Gift Shop was about. It’s not like Banksy is pricing his art, it’s completely controlled by the buyers.
Doubled?. It last sold for 24 million US. . .
nice. Face reveal at 10 billion subscribers?
He's nearly there
If you study the video closely, you'll see he actually already did the face reveal.
@@pedterson point it brother, help one out
*facepalm*
There's a photo of him at the auction, it's Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack. Man's been stencilling walls since the 80s.
Absolutely perfect! Picture is probably worth more now than prior to the shredding.
I just find it cool the fact that the artist was in the crowd the entire time
He must have asbestos hands to hold a soldering iron like that. @0:16
Laughing all the way to the bank, see?
Suuuuuper.. The faces.... priceless....
Genius. I loved this. Banksy, you are my hero.
Love how the man selling it also says "its a very decent price, everyone's got a chance" 😂 i possibly have about £4 to my name atm! Can i buy it for £4 please?
You could try, then get outbid
“Every act of creation begins with an act of destruction” Pablo Picasso.
Beautiful!
banksy: makes painting
auctioneers: our painting
The "same audience" that appears in the video where Sid Vicious plays My Way
Cool, really impressive! Just a thing, that's not the correct way to use a Soldering Iron :p
That's how an artist uses it, but just once.
Ciccio Pasticcio Also nothing to solder in that location.
This makes a great scene in a movie!! Look at all those responses, not even need acting...brilliant!!!
This is by far one of my favorite videos😊
I just painted a boy with a kite, looks almost the same.. Anyone interested? I can cut it for you as well..
what it look like
Well as long as you cut it ;)
Will you accept $860,000 for it?
@@metalfacemartinez well 800.000 is the max. But you need too cut that as well because I have to pay to many tax otherwise
@@therandomnesssshow it looks like 4 stripes that has a matras on 4 cables
Would have liked a better look at the mechanism and power supply.
Cut by the great director himself; a unique selling point!
Now the art piece is one of a kind and worth 10x as much.
weeks later and i'm still laughing...
At who? Nothing really happened here. The artist took the money from the buyer. Banksy shredded (albeit partially) an artwork & sold it anyway. Now he's drip feeding information to keep the publicity machine turning, unlike the shredder it's in full working order
Clearly Sotheby's were in on this stunt along with Banksy. Either that or their auction house security procedures are a disgrace. Imagine if it had been a remote controlled IED inside the frame instead of a shredder!
i think tah too if ied is bomb
Happy for the buyer's smart purchase! Don't take out the paper, a big frame to embrace the whole thing, the original frame is part of the art! It is a brilliant art - all the thing happened to this picture that day is an art!
This is beautiful. Me encanta.
1) how do you edge so much
2) why
3) is there other footage of this auction because I want to figure out who was filming
It was a fucking funny thing to do. I had wondered if it had died half way through the shredding though... Pity. All that money and all that greed and there's people starving
people are free to do what they want with their money, they earned it
ahr1man It's been said if you shared all the money out equally, within five years the poor would be poor again and the rich rich. These people have on the whole made money through careful investment, hard work, taking risks others wouldn't, and been well rewarded for it. They pay tax, why shouldn't they enjoy their earnings? Even by buying art they are supporting an industry and the jobs it provides.
@@spencerwilton5831 what absolute nonsense
It does not matter who he is. It's what he does. That was olympic level of mind fuck. Love you man. You are a ray of light in this dark world.
Brilliant. Absolutely.
You persuaded me. I thought it was a bit fake at first.
It's totally fake. It's a 12 year old painting and not in Banksy's hands for 12 years. Baterries linked to a receiver awaiting a signal cannot last more than a few years.
Look, it's got a bit where he's supposedly holding a soldering iron by the blistering hot metal.
No one noticed that extra weight? That's real heavy duty engineering for a paper shredder.
This kind of frames are really heavy even without the shredder.
It wasn't framed 12 years ago.
How did the battery last that long just waiting there?
did not.
That was amazing i love the idea, so creative!!, keep up the fantastic work!
He should make one with some paint stored at the top and a push of the button would release the paint causing the original painting to be covered
Great idea!
The most brilliant marketing trolling i've ever seen!! Even if it didnt work out till the end... keep going banksy, keep going!
Banksy is the only one that gives me hope into something, with his ideas, his art, his actions!
Thanks for showing me that art is just another way to produce change, a change that we really need in this society; just thanks Banksy.
What change did this prank produce in you?
Banksy is the Bono of the art world
Yes the change from a non-shredded to a shredded picture. So useful to society.
Worldwide response to this with regards to the shock/surprise & bewilderment “Was/Is The (living) Art” - As usual with Banksy...Genius👍
Out of all his work this the girl with the balloon is my favorite.