In October, auctioned, uk Sotheby’s, out a variation of the felt gatukonstnären Banksy’s works, ”Girl with balloon”. It sold for just over sek 10 million and was a world first. It because that the board’s framework began to shred tavelduken seconds after auktionsklubban been.
”Love is in the bin”, and shortly after the incident released artist a video from the rehearsals to the trick. Where shredded the whole painting down and Banksy writes, ”During the exercises, it worked every time”.
the Work is set out in the Frieder Burda museum in German Baden-Baden and the museum has disabled paper shredder that is sitting in the board frame, reports the BBC. It is because they don’t want to risk the rest of the board are shredded during the time that it is set out.
– We have opened up the framework and we have seen that the mechanism has been deactivated, ” says the director of the museum Henning Schaper to the BBC.
at the auction, have any questions been raised about whether the whole thing was a reklamstunt from Sotheby’s. Something that the auction house has rejected.
Sotheby’s head of contemporary art in Europe Alex Branczik said to The Art Newspaper that they had information that there was a sculpture, and that the framework was a part of the work.
– Which it was, but not in the way we thought, ” said Alex Branczik of the newspaper.
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