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Stealing Banksy
Interesting…
When I was exchanging emails with ABOVE, I asked him how he would feel if someone took down a piece of his work in the streets to keep. He said essentially that it was meant to be seen, and wouldn’t be cool with people taking his work. On the one hand I respect and understand that, but like Banksy himself talks about at the end of Exit Through the Gift Shop, can you really be mad at someone breaking the rules of a subculture that breaks the rules and in theory has no rules? What about if that art sold for over a half a million?
Reminded me of a trailer for a movie I saw earlier this year:
Ben Turnbull
Ben Turnbull makes art.
Ben Turnbull is fascinated by the global dominance of American culture, and his works unsettling effects result from re-presenting the toys of our innocent youth in symbolic forms that reveal the shocking truths about war and violence in the world’s most powerful country. Above all his work takes a satirical look at the lengths that the country’s political elites go to in order to control and manipulate the way we think, from our first days of play to the last time we cast our vote. Turnbull is a passionate critic of the contemporary American political system, and explains why toys are central to his work: ‘Force fed on violence, abused by a controlling superpower and blackmailed through patriotism, the public are ultimately as disposable as the toys they once played with’. Turnbull masterfully crafts his realisations about a cultural relationship with violence through producing socio-political poignant work.
Ben Turnbull was born in 1974. He lives and works in London.
He does all sorts of fresh stuff, but the stuff I dig are his desk carvings. Not of the “I love Susie” or “Fuck you” variety, but stuff that is infinitely doper.
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