This content was published on August 11, 2024 – 14:52
London, Aug 11 (EFE).- A glass police booth has been turned into an improvised fish tank for Banksy’s latest work in London, the British artist confirmed on Sunday on social media, with a snapshot in which a law enforcement officer appears photographing it.
This is the seventh creation by the mysterious graffiti artist to appear this week in the UK capital and is part of the series already dubbed ‘London Zoo’.
According to photographs of the work, Banksy appears to have used a translucent spray paint to transform the booth into a large fish tank in which the fish, which look like piranhas, are painted in more detail than in his previous creations.
They are different from the black silhouettes that he has used to create a goat, elephants, a wolf, pelicans and a cat in the capital during the week.
The new work appeared mid-morning on Sunday on Ludgate Hill, in the heart of old London, where police officers soon arrived to take photos and open a case.
In a statement issued to the media before Banksy himself confirmed his authorship, the police reported that they were “aware” of the “criminal damage” caused to a sentry box in Ludgate Hill.
The fish follow the silhouette of a stretching black cat that appeared on a dilapidated billboard in the Cricklewood neighbourhood of north-west London on Saturday.
The owner of the fence dismantled the artwork shortly afterwards for security reasons and, according to police, plans to donate it to an art gallery.
The weekend’s creations follow a number of other animal creations that Banksy has been delighting his fans with throughout the week.
On Friday, the street artist took to the streets of Walthamstow on the Bonners Fish Bar fast food outlet, where he painted two pelicans “catching” a pair of fish, one of which was integrated into the fish and chip shop’s sign itself.
Earlier, the zoo series featured a howling wolf inside a satellite dish in Peckham, south-east London, which was stolen an hour after it was posted on social media on Thursday.
A group of hooded men climbed onto the roof of the premises using a ladder, dismantled the satellite dish and ran off down the avenue with the Banksy creation, before the astonished gaze of passers-by.
The “animal” series began on Monday in the Kew Green neighbourhood of Richmond, southwest of the capital, with a goat on top of a ledge from which several rocks are falling while a real surveillance camera is pointed at it.
This first work was followed by two elephants peering through a window in Chelsea and then three monkeys hanging from a bridge at an underground station near Brick Lane Market.
Banksy is known for raising awareness of social, political and environmental issues through his street art in various parts of the world; and his works are highly sought after, reaching tens of millions of euros at auctions. EFE
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