Painting Through Shredder

Banksy has released a video showing how he secretly built a shredder into one of his paintings that self destructed after it was sold for more than 1m.

Painting through shredder. The street artist hid a built in shredder in the frame of the artwork when he created it in 2006. Moments after the gavel came down on the sale of the enigmatic artists girl with balloon painting at sothebys auction house in london the painting passed through a shredder that had apparently been hidden in the frame. The framed girl with balloon one of the. The mysterious artist hid a shredder in the frame for his 2006 painting girl with red balloon and when it was sold at auction for 1042000 about 14 million.

The spray painted canvas girl with balloon slid through a shredder embedded in the frame emerging out the bottom in strips as the final hammer signaled an end to the evening according to. No sooner did the gavel come down to mark the sale of banksys girl with balloon for a record 1. Art connoisseurs could only watch in horror as an expensive piece was shredded before their eyes. A few years ago i secretly built.

You can probably guess what. Someone purchased an iconic banksy painting for 14 million on friday only to watch it immediately turn to shreds. On saturday evening banksy posted a video on his instagram page which showed a shredder being fitted to the frame of the painting. The dadaists hated the european culture of fine art and self conscious sensitivity that could slaughter its youth by putting them through the giant human shredder that was the western front.

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