Friday, 22 January 2010
BANKSY "EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP" THE PLOT !
So, the story so far, In 2005 Shep Fairey introduces the much criticised "street artist" and filmaker Thierry Guetta aka Mr Brainwash to Banksy, Thierry a cousin of French Street Artist Invader has been compiling footage of street artists at work for almost 9 years, including Kaws, Shepard Fairey, WK interact, Space Invader, Faile, Barry McGee, Malcolm McLaren, Dov Charney, Zeuss, Monsieur A and many more, how did he gain access to these renowned artists, well.. Thierry is a relatively wealthy property owner in LA and through Invader, had been acting as a "spotter" and providing walls for visiting artsist for years. The film he's working on is called "Life's Remote Control" and is slated for release in 2006..the film includes footage of Banksy at work.
Thierry subsequently falls in love with Banksy and his work and his sticker and small paste up campaign promoting the film gathers pace and begins to grow into something else. Rather than revealing Banksy, Banksy talks Thierry into the film being about him, takes control of the footage and director duties and starts about setting up and supporting Thierry as a bone fida street artist. Now keep in mind that the film "Life's Remote control" also features the original rock and roll swindler Malcolm McLaren ! This was stated in the films first press release.
Banksy then sets up Thierry as street artist aka Mr Brainwash with an enormous show in LA, keep in mind Thierry is wealthy and now emplys many assistants. The show mirrors Banksy's show of the year before "Barely Legal", how ? well the show "Life is Beautiful" was produced by none other than Daniel Salin, the same producer that set up Barley Legal, Roger Gaston of Swindle fame acting as consultant, it even had Shep Dj'ing at the opening night.
Banksy then sets up Thierry as street artist aka Mr Brainwash with an enormous show in LA, keep in mind Thierry is wealthy and now emplys many assistants. The show mirrors Banksy's show of the year before "Barely Legal", how ? well the show "Life is Beautiful" was produced by none other than Daniel Salin, the same producer that set up Barley Legal, Roger Gaston of Swindle fame acting as consultant, it even had Shep Dj'ing at the opening night.
Both Shep Fairey and Banksy discuss MBW here
“Mr. Brainwash is a force of nature, he’s a phenomenon. And I don't mean that in a good way.”
- Banksy
How do we know all of this ? Well I guess a lot of people suspected it from the very beginning, there's been speculation since day 1. Then suddenly Shepard Fairey revealed all but the punchline back 2008 when speaking at the Bonhams auction project organised with Carmichael Gallery, check out this video from 07.01. If you can't be bothered with that, read the transcript below.
Transcript from the video..
"He’s cousins with Space Invader, he lives here. He owns a lot of property around Hollywood. And he got hip to my work through Space Invader, went out with me and starting documenting me and then in 2005 I introduced him to Banksy and he really fell in love with Banksy and he wanted to make a film about me, a film about street art in general with several artists including Banksy in it.
And then it just turned into his obsession with the artform switched over to him becoming an artist , but the thing about him is, is that he is motivated, but he also has a lot of money and a lot of assistants and so a lot of that work doesn’t even have his own hand in it. And I have mixed feelings about all of that.
But His show was a very manufactured thing, in that Banksy, in order to try to get Terry’s film that he never completed to come out said ‘why I don’t make this film about you and I’ll direct it and then can I get the footage of me back, so I can put that into the film.’
So the coup de grâce of the film is Terry transitioning from being just a voyeur and admirer of street art to being a street artist which I think is part of Banksy’s sick sense of humor. It’s a very complex situation, but I personally think he kind of rushed things to suit Banksy’s agenda and a his lot of work was derivative of Banky’s work, Warhol’s, my work, Damien Hirst, But anyway I don’t know, it’s weird…."
So there you have it..the great Rock n Roll Swindle of LA's Contemporary Art scene, ladies and gentlemen, we give you, Mr Brainwash, the Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Milli Vanilli of street art
Can't wait to see it !
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