Co-founder of London’s Lazinc gallery, Steve Lazarides, is making preparations to launch a monumental show spotlighting a unique selection of Banksy‘s artworks. Entitled “Banksy, Greatest Hits: 2002-2008,” the extensive presentation will display six years’ worth of stenciled canvases, paintings, sculptures, and limited-edition prints by the Bristol-born street artist. Highlights include Love Is In The Air (2006), Girl and Balloon (2006), Show Me the Monet (2005).
The show is a most-intimate one for Lazarides who was Banksy’s personal photographer and gallerist for 11 years. He first met the elusive artist in 1997, having captured his portrait for one of London’s cult-favorite style magazines, Sleazenation. “Banksy has made himself the artist of the people. He belongs to the people – his popularity is because of them,” said Lazarides. “It’s our mission to show all elements of his work externally and give the public the opportunity to experience it when museums and galleries won’t.”
View select artworks above and expect the exhibition to launch to the public at Lazinc Sackville starting July 12. In related news, Banksy is showing a new piece at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer 2018 exhibition.
Lazinc Sackville
29 Sackville St.
Mayfair, London W1S 3DX, UK
29 Sackville St.
Mayfair, London W1S 3DX, UK
With Paris, France an evident target of Banksy’s oft-political brand of expressive art — having earlier explored a trio of murals surfacing earlier this week — it appears as if the enigmatic artist has created a new set of pieces that have descended upon the French capital.
Taking to Instagram, Banksy appears to have stenciled a masked rat caricature — wielding a sharp box cutter — found on the backside of a signpost hanging off the Centre Pompidou with the text, “Fifty years since the uprising in Paris 1968. The birthplace of modern stencil art.” The other image, although still keeping with the same rodent theme, depicts a sophisticated rat couple, which when taking the angled point of view into consideration, appear to be looking up at the iconic Eiffel Tower. What your thoughts on Banksy’s newest works?
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