So you don't have an opinion on it, or you just follow the Banksy website party line?

It could mean that he condones the preservations, though my money is on Banksy taking the piss and wanting to show how absurd it is that his work gets preserved while everybody elses gets buffed.

I personally agree with Alsabar on this, let Pest Control use their wisdom,money & lawyers which they obviously have in place. at least we all agree on the fact of it is wrong that people are trying to profit from this. back to art i say ! :-)

hanky - you're on mate

This is wack. Absolute bulls**t...but not as wack as this....

Which is interesting - as either he hasn't got GWB for sale at all.

or-

They were removed by that specialist company using the chemical process that had the 'Old Skool' piece on Clerkenwell Rd.

If so, presuming he has got Girl With Balloon - seeing as it was on public propety - would the council have given him permission? I'm guessing as this is London and you need a license or a permit to do anything - they must have dealt with some authority.
Were they paid to allow it to be removed?

It's interesting to speculate on the transactions and nature of the discussions, between this guy and the authorities that must have taken place to arrange this.

all of these pieces were removed before the days of "red ken" but i think you have to look furthe rinto the move by banksy...

after giving him the best part of a million quid for his campaign surely now he could never remove any of the large pieces ala "one nation", and now with ken in his pocket I think Banksy will be free to move around town making more and more political statements in his work. I think Ken will eventually be left a little red faced when Mr B goes over the top with a future piece, and Ken will effectively be powerless to stop it or remove it. Either that or risk the chance of looking like a complete hypocrytical idiot....

oh dear, hes done that already hasn't he!!!!!!

The one on London bridge is actually still partly there just very very faded.

Smudger you are such a fecking novice.

address on site is , 40 dover street , mayfair , london , w1 s 4nd
lets just put all our junk mail into jiffi bags and keep sending them all our sh*t
serves them right , or sh*t into a jiffi bag and send them that , see if they can sell our logs

I wanna know what any of you Banksy fans are doing about it?
Why don't you go down and see if this is for real?

I think this site is made up of a few Star Trek Geeks that sit on their computer all day.
Get off your computer and do something!

I am corresponding with the company at the moment to find out what the fark they are up to.
Can some more of you Banksy supporters do the same?

Cheers


I will post their reply.

Personally, I don't really care! If someone can make a quick buck from selling bits of wall, then they are clearly doing something quite clever considering they have no COA... and the idiots who buy them, well, they are just idiots.

I agree with cutty in regards that people here get too possessive about Banksy's work. Having been following it since the 90's I don't understand this requirement to preserve his art. I enjoy the fact that he paints and walks on, he releases his stuff to the wild.
People who then try and claim his stuff as their own (by this I mean that they get protective of it and want to wrap it in cotton wool) and defend the right for it to be kept for eternity are missing the point of street art completely in my book.
Street art is and always has been disposable. Maybe thats what attracts me to it, is that somebody has brought their view of a subject and put it into the public domain. Its a sound byte that if it resonates with me, I take away from it a good and soulful feeling about that message.
Banksy happens to have a similar take on things as me. He sees things as I wish other people did. He's not the only one by a long stretch, I have many influences and find many things thought provoking. But once he has said his piece, discuss it by all means but dont try and become its keeper.

I really liked the poster campaign that went around a few years ago, where by when this crew found a space where a poster had been removed they placed a 'web browser missing image' image on it. Perhaps the same should be done with banksys stuff. a missing image placed in the top left hand corner of the missing piece, with banksy.jpg underneath.
depth-first.com/demo/20061127/broken_image.png

This is what the guy wrote to me..................

If Banksy does not ask permission to paint on other people's
walls what right does he have over the ownership of the piece.

Banksy made his name by painting in very public places. He
never expected those pieces to stay up indefinitely and it would
take him literally 20 minutes to spray another dozen of these
whenever he wants.

He is already a millionaire through the work he sells privately.

The piece in time will be scrubbed of by the local council or
defaced anyway.