![]() ![]() Sotheby’s also claims that Love Is in the Bin is “the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction.” Last year, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Tom Waits, Elton John, and more created player-piano pieces for Banksy’s “Walled-Off Hotel” installation in Bethlehem, Israel. Banksy and Sotheby’s both contend that no one at the auction house had prior knowledge of the stunt. ![]() The buyer of the piece-entitled “Love Is in the Bin” in its finished form-has elected to keep it. At the end, a title screen appears reading “In rehearsals it worked every time…” before footage of a successful rehearsal of the shredding, in which the painting is fully reduced to ribbons. It also includes footage of the auction, before and after the chaos. A new video posted by the anonymous artist to YouTube shows the installation process of the shredder and attached triggering mechanism. As the art handler carried the piece away, it was clear that the shredder Banksy had installed in the frame hadn’t managed to destroy the entire painting. The artwork was signed and dedicated and the vendor acquired it from the artist in 2006, the auction house said.įollowing the stunt, Alex Branczik, Sotheby's senior director, said: "It appears we just got Banksy-ed.Earlier this month, Banksy shocked the assemblage at a Sotheby’s auction in London when the frame for a copy of his 2006 piece “Girl With Balloon” shredded the painting after it was auctioned off for $1.4 million. Sotheby's has confirmed that the buyer, a long-standing female client, still wants to take the work for the agreed price.ĭepicting a girl reaching towards a bright red heart-shaped balloon, the spray paint and acrylic on canvas Girl With Balloon is one of Banksy's best-known images. The new half-shredded artwork has been renamed Love Is In The Bin after being granted certification by Pest Control, Banksy's authentication body. 'It appears we just got Banksy-ed,' said. ![]() It then cuts to the now world-famous auction, where a pair of hands presses a button in a black box to set off the destruction as soon as the hammer goes down. The 'Girl with Balloon' painting by artist and prankster Banksy appeared to self-destruct after selling for 1.4 million at a Sotheby's auction in London. The new three-minute-long video - the second to be released by the artist giving details on the stunt - shows a hooded figure constructing the shredder in a workshop. Some people think the auction house were in on it, they weren't." Posting on Instagram, the anonymous artist said: "Some people think it didn't really shred. ![]() In a new video, entitled Shred The Love, The Director's Cut, Banksy has revealed that he carried out rehearsals for the headline-grabbing prank, and that in practice runs the secret shredder hidden inside the painting's Victorian-style frame had "worked every time".įootage of a test run shows a Girl With Balloon print passing through the shredder in full, with none of the canvas remaining intact. Onlookers at a Sotheby's auction earlier this month were left gobsmacked when, just moments after selling to a European collector for more than £1m, the famous artwork "self-destructed", with the bottom half reduced to strips dangling from the bottom of the frame. Street artist Banksy has posted a new video about the shredding of his famous Girl With Balloon painting, implying that it was supposed to have been completely destroyed in the stunt. ![]()
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