![]() One of Banksy's best-known images, Girl With Balloon was one of the star attractions at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Sale. It does not show how the shredder was activated, but it is thought to have been achieved through a remotely activated mechanism within the frame. "In case it was ever put up for auction…" Onlookers at Sotheby's in London were stunned when, just moments after selling for more than £1m, the Girl With Balloon painting shredded in front of them, coming out of the bottom of the frame in strips.Ī video on his official Instagram page shows the device being installed, and says: "A few years ago I secretly built a shredder into a painting… Quoting Picasso, Banksy has released a video showing how he secretly built a shredder into the painting which made headlines around the world when it self-destructed during an auction last week. Going forward, are we going to question a frame like this? Absolutely."The urge to destroy is also a creative urge." “The accusation that we were somehow negligent in the way this was catalogued does not stand up. ![]() We also had a third-party conservator look at the work,” he said. “Pest Control said very clearly: The frame is integral to the art work, which it was, just not in the sort of way that we thought. ![]() The director of Sotheby’s contemporary art in Europe, Alex Branczik, said much the same in an interview with The Art Newspaper. Some people think the auction house were in on it, they weren’t.” In a post on Instagram linking to the video, Banksy put to rest several rumors surrounding his stunt, saying, “Some people think it didn’t really shred. Recommended: Get a Rare Glimpse of the Royal Family’s Private Rooms at Buckingham Palace Pest Control, Banksy’s official authentication body, issued a new authentication certificate and gave the work a new name, Love Is in the Bin. The client who bought the painting for $1.4 million has announced that she intends to keep the work. Then an alarm goes off and the piece begins to shred, but a jam in the machine prevents the work from being turned entirely into shreds. ![]() He then plays a long clip of the auction of the painting in full, cutting to a close-up of someone pushing a switch on a remote just after the sale was finalized. At one point a man who appears to work at Sotheby’s is seen standing in front of the work, telling an onlooker that the artist himself had put the frame on. The video, which Banksy aptly titled Shred the Love, also shows a man in a hoodie installing a shredder into the frame and clips of the painting at various points on the evening of the sale. In a nearly three-minute video posted to the site yesterday, the mischievous street artist shows what’s implied to be a practice run of the shredding in which the painting, or a copy, is completely destroyed, with a caption prefacing the clip that says, “In rehearsals it worked every time.” Just as the buzz around his now-infamous stunt at Sotheby’s on October 5 was beginning to die down, Banksy has taken to YouTube to suggest that he had intended for Girl with Balloon to be shredded completely. ![]()
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