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      Discovering Banksy – Part 2

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      Street artist Bansky has been surprising the world since the 90’s. From then on Banksy’s silkscreen prints and stencil paintings were racking up record-breaking sales in storied art auctions such as Sotheby’s and Bonham’s of London. These successful sales marked Banksy’s entry into the commercial art world. For the second part of our series “Discovering Banksy”, we are sharing his “little-known” paintings and prints mostly dating in the 90’s and early 2000’s.

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      Scroll down below to view the interesting selection.

      Riot Painting from Glasgow, United Kingdom, 1997

      Riot Painting features Banksy’s arguably most famous piece the “Flower Thrower”. At first glance it looks like a rioter about to throw a Molotov Cocktail. However this “rioter” is throwing a bouquet of flowers instead.

      Police Car Print

      Painting on Canvas from Easton, Bristol in 1999

      Chicken & Egg Painting on Steel

      Early painting of Banksy sold for £10.00 in 1998

      Early painting of Banksy sold for £10.00 in 1998 (back of canvas)

      “Keep it Real” Painting on Canvas, 2006

      Painting from 1999

      Rubber Ducky, Painting on Canvas, 2006

      Clown on Skate Deck, 2000

      Avon and Somerset Constabulary, sold for £96,000 in 2000

      “Land in Poop” early print

      Bomb Hugger Print, 2002

      “Sid Vicious” Canvas Print sold for £82,000 in Bristol, UK, 2007

      “Armored Dove” in Bethlehem, 2007

      “Barcode Leopard” Print, 2004 More

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      “Airhead” by SHOK-1 IN Hackney, United Kingdom

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      Bristish artist SHOK-1 just worked on a new mural in collaboration with London Mural Festival. The said mural is located in Hackney, United Kingdom. It features SHOK-1’s unique spraypaint X-ray style.

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      A cool blend of street and science, SHOK-1’s artworks have tremendous resonance with a wide range of demographics: from fans of pop culture, contemporary and street arts, to surgeons, radiologists and scientists. Darkly beautiful and packed with subtle layers of intricate detail, X-rays are one of the most difficult subject matters a painter could attempt. SHOK-1 has pioneered cutting-edge freehand techniques using no tape or stencils to render his X-ray style.
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      Hiroyasu Tsuri aka Twoone – RAW MARK MAKING

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      RAW MARK MAKING – Hiroyasu Tsuri (b. 1983)

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      Hiroyasu Tsuri aka Twoone – RAW MARK MAKING

      “Raw Mark Making is quite a simple idea. It’s literally the meaning of the words. Mark making. In my context, it is making marks that are not commonly used in traditional art practice. Unusual movements, using any kind of tools, embracing a mood or attitude, mixed with the physical speed or controlling the level of impact on to the surface… that’s what I call raw mark making.”
      – Hiroyasu Tsuri

      Since pre-historic times it has been an instinctual human behaviour to make marks. Whether an individual or a group of people, mark making has been a constant outlet for human beings to leave behind a record of their existence and experiences. Hiroyasu Tsuri (TWOONE) is driven by this same innate behaviour. Tsuri creates marks with a childlike freedom of expression, open mindedness and this instinctual human desire to leave behind a legacy of visual depictions of the his interpretations of the human experience. Tsuri calls this ‘Raw Mark Making’.

      The concept of ‘Raw Mark Making’ is the culmination of a decade of experience taking every opportunity to paint marks whenever and wherever Tsuri finds himself around the world. This experience began in the early 2000’s, studying composition and mark making techniques with graffiti writers in Melbourne Australia. In 2014 Tsuri relocated to Berlin Germany and it was this move that sparked a philosophical desire to survey his practise over the last decade and acknowledge and consider the concepts, motivations and ideas behind why he creates marks, and why he chooses to do so in his distinct manner.

      Since 2012 Tsuri has exhibited four unique solo exhibitions with Backwoods Gallery – SevenSamurai (2012), Outsiders (2014), 100 Faces (2016) and Object (2018). Raw Mark Making (2020) celebrates Tsuri’s history, and development of, the different kinds of ‘Mark Making’ that have been exhibited in these exhibitions and that have become pivotal to first decade of his oeuvre. The selected works represents the different stages of discovery of Tsuri’s own unique expression of, and place within, the human history of ‘Raw Mark Making’.
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      Banksy in Nottingham, UK

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      Banksy just returned to the UK with a brand new piece that appeared a few hours ago on the streets of Nottingham.b-sm = 300×250; sm > none; The British artist painted a great concept using the bike’s missing tyre. This is another tongue in cheek piece to add to B’s collection of humorous street works… More

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      Discovering Banksy – Part 1

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      Over the past decades, Banksy have been one of the biggest (if not the biggest) names in the street art scene. Banksy’s rise to fame and notoriety was born from his controversial and often politically-charged stencilled graffiti works. Originally from England, Banksy’s work grew out from the Bristol underground art scene into a global phenomenon.

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      While it is exceedingly difficult to narrow down a handful of works that define his style, we present below a selection of Banksy’s early and obscure street art installations.

      Crossing in Dalston

      Installation in Hackney, 2004

      Brick Lane, London, 2007

      Banksy’s Removal van seen in 2004

      Banksy’s Removal Van

      Water Tank installation in Los Angeles, USA, 2011

      Banky’s Painted Elaphant, 2006

      Banksy’s painted elephant was a part of the show “Barely Legal” held in an industrial warehouse in Los Angeles, California in 2006. the show was meant to address important issues such as poverty, which is ignored by most people, the animal refers to the metaphor of the elephant in the room.

      Banksy Carved Tag

      Banksy’s Barcode

      Installation in Bournemouth, England, 2004

      “Traffic Cones” Installation

      Installation in London, 2011

      Installation in Bristol, England in the late 90’s

      Inside truck view of “Siren of Lambs”

      “Sirens of the Lambs” and it features a bunch of cuddly puppet animals peeking out of a truck, squealing (or at least squeaking) with fear. Its purpose was to bring attention to the cruel conditions real animals suffer when being transported from factory farms to slaughterhouses. More

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      Nafir “Emptiness Of You” Limited Edition Original Artwork Edition – October 22nd

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      Iranian artist Nafir have collaborated with StreetArtNews for this series of limited edition artworks entitled “Emptiness Of You”. These artworks will be released by October 22, Thursday, 5PM UK time. It comes in 4 different editions and a unique one. The artworks will be priced at 590$ and will be available on StreetArtNews store.

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      “Emptiness Of You” features stencil portraits over traditional Persian carpets. The map of the carpet was  originally from Kashan City. Most Iranian Kashans follow a medallion-and-corner pattern. Kashan stands for the highest standards and traditional production of the finest craftsmanship, and are mostly knotted from very good wool.
      Additionally, these carpets used were old and damaged. It was repurposed as canvas for the stencil paintings.
      These artworks will be released by October 22, Thursday, 5PM UK time. It comes in 4 different editions and a unique one. The artworks will be priced at 590$ and will be available on StreetArtNews store.

      Edition 1 – 60 X 70 cm

      Edition 2 – 50.5 x 73 cm

      Edition 3
 – 60.5 x 71 cm

      Edition 4
 – 61 x 76 cm

      Unique
 – 50 x 75 cm

      Nafir is a self-taught Iranian artist born in Tehran whose works are influenced by traditional Iranian art and culture. As he call himself vandal street artist his art focus on social problems of Iran and whole world. Nafir start tagging in 2008 on crowded walls of Iran to fight with censorship political and social problems. 
      His paintings can be found around the world in Iran, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Italy, Germany, Norway, Netherlands, Turkey, India and Georgia. Nafir currently lives and works in Tehran, Iran. More

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      New Mural by Etnik in Turin, Italy

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      Graffiti-artist Etnik is back with another big wall. This new mural is located in front of a school in Turin, Italy. The idea of this wall was born during the lockdown. Etnik with this paint wants to create a window with a fantastic landscape behind, for the children that will come back to school after 7 months of staying home.  So it is a sort of surprise for the younger kids and the people who walk in front of the wall.

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      Alessandro Battisti aka Etnik is considered as one of the most active and accomplished urban artist in Italy. He has experienced and assimilated the transition to post-graffiti and Street Art. From 2001 his style started to evolve into geometrical and architectural forms with letterings and a mixture of urban landscapes.
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      “Never Ending Summer”by Nico Miyakawa in Turin, Italy

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      The month of October that has just begun led to the birth and to the official opening reception of a new artistic hub in Turin, Beeozanam.Among many realities involved in the project, we find our friends from Missiontoart who, for the occasion, presented the brand new works born from the artist’s latest residency together with Nico Miyakawa.

      In Missiontoart’s latest artist residency they invited Italian-Japanese artist Nico Miyakawa. With a portfolio primarily formed by hand drawn sketchbooks filled with dreamy scenarios, his work takes the viewer through a rich and detailed interpretation of reality. He created “Nico’s Room”, a space in the former industrial offices fully painted by the artist, where you can get be surrounded by Nico’s characters. A 360 degrees experience we suggest to do not miss.

      Together they created a 22 pieces of limited edition print, experimenting on new methods to develop the films. They put the digital process aside and dove into an artisanal approach for all stages of printing, letting Nico paint directly onto the acetate films to produce the screens. Seven acetate film sheets for seven levels of colors, harmoniously overlaid, mixed and bound together to bring the print to life. Here is the result: a palm tree of such vivid, bright colors – that only serigraphy can recreate – on a sky blue background previously hand-painted by the artist. A print that portrays exotic moods, tropical landscapes and the warm light of a summer that is not over yet.
      The limited edition is made on 300gsm, 100% cotton paper. Dimension 50cm x 70cm. If you want to get the vibes and bring them into your home, you can find the print available in their store.

      Read the entire article on Missiontoart official site.
      A special thank goes to Ivan Catalano and Chiara Dalmaviva for the images and stay tuned with us for the latest news from Italian art scene. More