Banksy

Set > http://www.flickr.com/photos/omarc/sets/72157621810285510/

Went to Bristol. The heavens opened when we were in the queue and everyone got thoroughly soaked.

The exhibition was. Well it was almost split into two parts. There was a downstairs bit which was all his work and that contained some of the pieces that I like most. The ‘social-commentary’ type pieces. The stuff that I think of him when I think of Banksy, graffiti for the most part. Distinctive, ideas expressed simply and clearly.

Then there was the other pieces, hidden among the rest of the museum. Rob said it was a con, that we were being persuaded to look at all the art because we wanted to see the few pieces Banksy had put among them. I just didn’t enjoy this bit. It seemed to be a case of an iPod here, a Easyjet sign there an abandoned car in another picture (http://www.flickr.com/photos/omarc/3753331758/). They just didn’t grab me, didn’t seem a reason for some of it. Unless it was to get you to look around the museum, which it did. Though the bit where people were asking where the pieces were didn’t really work. They had clearly been told to be vague.

It did raise the interesting notion that some of the bits we thought might have been his work might not have been though.

posted: 09 July 29
under: photo