The recently-applied work of street artist Banksy at an abandoned Packard auto plant in Detroit, Michigan. A local gallery promptly dug up and relocated the wall to their space, sparking controversy.
Read the article, tell me what you think. I think the wall should have been left in place.
Of course, that is the nature of Banksy's work, the very site specificity is what creates its inherent meaning. It is essentially graffitti and many of his works have been destroyed by other graffitti artists and public employees, just doing their job....
Even though the value of the work by one who percieves it as a form of valuable art...could be as high as $100,000......
7 comments:
Hello Microdot,
What great art, and NO, it should not be torn down.
This is one of the things I love about your blog site. Keep up the good work my friend.
The wall should have been left undisturbed. Art doesn't have to be forever.
;>)
EXACTLY!
It's the message of the moment, in the place where its meaning is most relevant, that is important.
But as usual, some jackass (or confederacy thereof) smells money and takes advantage of the situation...The price being the utter devaluation of situational context and objective meaning. They call themselves patrons - feh, more like parasites.
;>)
Wasn't the Packard Plant Photo Thread pretty cool? My uncle, Al Crooker was an exec with Studebaker Packard...he died in the mid 60's, but I remember going to the plant when I was a tyke.
He would have a new Studebaker Hawk every year....I remember some pretty hideous machines that were bastardized versions of the original Raymond Loewry 53 Hawk, perhaps one of the purest auto designs ever produced in America....
They ran with the basic shell and kept adding more and more chrome to it and then the most hideous paint jobs...He had a Hawk in last days of Studebaker that was white, pink and black with almost a quarter ton of superfluous chrome....I'm not sure, but I think they added fins around then.
On the other hand, the 1953 Packard Carribean...sigh...what a car...
Yeah, the photo thread was cool. I used to really dig that 'Fabulous Ruins Of Detroit' site, too - Motor Town as I remember it, or at least the 2:00 am part.
;>)
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