A bit off topic, but THIS (points to picture above) is the sort of crowd Banksy draws in Hong Kong. According to hongkonghustle.com, the guests " were a mixture of neophyte collectors, bankers and a smattering of local artists and scene-sters." Bankers admiring Banksy, who's laughing all the way to bank in light because his work is extremely bankable these days. The IRONY kills me.
Love Art, the modern art exhibition headlined by Banksy, Hirst, Mel Ramos and Keith Haring et al, opened on Wednesday night at the Hong Kong Art Centre in Wan Chai.
I don't know how I feel about Bansky in an art gallery, I mean an artist has got to be rewarded for his ideas, but what I admire most about Banksy, aside from the obvious reasons of why everyone else loves him, is the questions he raises about art ownership. When you attach commerce to public art - who owns it? The public? The artist? The city council? Does ownership even apply? I would like to see a Bank-mobile that ferries people around the city showing his work within the context that was originally intended. And then at the end of the tour you can have a go at 'Spot the real Banksy', where you have to identify the real artist amidst a crowd of lookalikes. And if you get it right, you get to ravish him. Or ambush an unsuspecting wall with him. Or ravish him against an unsuspecting wall. Or ravish an unsuspecting wall.
Peace Out.
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