October 31, 2007
Do We Really Need A New Banksy?
An article in the Telegraph that starts “The race is on to discover the next Banksy.” makes us cringe. Let’s find the new street artist so we can all make some dosh, why don’t we? Banksy and the street art movement his work fueled seems to belong to a certain time - the first five or six years of this decade up until the Wooster Collective Spring Street event. Or was that a wake? Yes, we still love Bansky’s new work but looking back on the whole movement, it feels that the energy that was street art has died, or at least hibernated, and contemporary art has moved on and so have the artists.
An extract to to make you wonder what the street art movement has really become:
News of a new talent can spread rapidly. “Someone came in and as soon as he had bought a painting he was on his mobile. Suddenly I was inundated with buyers for the same artist,” says Jones. During my hour-long visit to the gallery on Saturday he sold five works, including two by Miami artist José Parlá. “Two years ago, they would have cost one or two thousand pounds,” says Jones. “Now they are up to £35,000 each.”
The number of galleries showing street art is also expanding. Last week the Black Rat Press opened under a railway arch in Rivington Street, east London, and sold £120,000 worth of prints by American street artist Swoon.
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