2023-10-03 23:27:00
The identity of Banksy, the world famous graffiti artist whose name was never revealedmight be revealed in the coming days in the course of a legal battle in the United Kingdom.
Known around the world for his thought-provoking murals and artistic installations, the masked man might, in this way, forever lose the mysticism that surrounds his life.
Banksy named first defendant in defamation case brought once morest him and his art sales company “Pest Control Ltd”by Andrew Gallagher, a 56-year-old iconoclastic entrepreneur who started out in the music industry, organizing raves in the ’90s, before exploiting the commercial potential of graffiti.
This raises the possibility that he may soon be legally named, by first and last name, before the British High Court.
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During his early years, Banksy remained anonymous for fear of prosecution for his street art.and now paints covertly to protect the air of mystery and stay out of the spotlight.
Without ever showing his faceBanksy became the UK’s most famous graffiti artist in the early 2000s and began organizing exhibitions across the country and abroad.
In 2003 he disguised himself as a retiree and installed his own work in an empty space in the Tate Britain Gallery in London, and a year later He hung his own version of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
His works around the world include “Girl with Balloon“, which was sucked into a crusher when the hammer fell following a million-dollar bid at auction in 2018. It was later re-released as a new piece titled “Love is in the Papelera“.
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Who is Banksy? Robin Gunningham, the main suspect
Banksy’s real identity has been hidden for more than 25 yearsalthough in 2008 theories emerged that his true identity was that of the creative Robin Gunningham, a former student from the British city of Bristol.
The theory is certainly plausible, and some former schoolmates say that Gunningham is the mystery artist. Banksy then wrote on his website: “I can’t comment on who Banksy may or may not be, but anyone who is described as ‘good at drawing’ doesn’t seem like Banksy to me.”.
One of Banksy’s first works is “The Mild Mild West“, a large mural was painted in 1999 in Bristol showing a teddy bear throwing a Molotov cocktail at three riot police. It was painted by the artist over three days in broad daylight and still stands in the city, among some of Banksy’s other works.
Banksy moved to London around the turn of the millennium, at the same time as one Robin Gunningham. In 2001, Banksy had her first unofficial exhibition in London in which she spray painted 12 works on the whitewashed walls of a tunnel in Rivington, Shoreditch.
But it was his show Turf warin July 2003, held in a warehouse just meters from Robin Gunningham’s apartment, putting Banksy on the map.
In 2016, scientists at Queen Mary University of London said they had studied the positions of Banksy works in Bristol and London to prove that Gunningham was the creator of the graffiti.
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Investigation delayed following Banksy’s lawyers contacted university raising concerns regarding the study.
Researchers said they had “tagged” locations linked to Banksy and identified an obvious pattern between the artworks and addresses he frequently visited in Bristol and London.
They explained in their study that they had used the so-called “Dirichlet process mixture (DPM) geographic profiling model,” a technique developed by criminologists.
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The Red Hook Warehouse Man
In 2013, many believed that Banksy’s identity had finally been revealed and Twitter exploded following user @DjJonHenry publish photographs of a group of men and two trucks used for mobile works of art Sirens Of The Lambs y Waterfall the Banksy.
The photo showed five men arranging stuffed animals in a truck outside a warehouse in Red Hook Brooklyn, leading to speculation that one of the men was the lone artist. The Twitter user said he approached them following recognizing Banksy’s vehicles in New York.
The men refused to answer when the tweeter asked where Banksy was, although he wrote that he thought the man on top of the truck might be him, as he was directing the others and spoke with an English accent.
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Some media outlets speculated that the man on the left of the vehicle might be Banksy. because it has a striking resemblance to a photograph believed to be of the artist and that was published by the British newspaper The Daily Mail in 2008.
The journalists of Daily Mail They visited Bristol, said to be Banksy’s hometown, where a man claimed the identity of the man in the photograph was Robin Gunningham.
The Twitter user abandoned his search for Banksy’s identity following receiving a flood of responses from the artist’s fans who accused him of trying to jeopardize the rest of his show.
The rapper Robert Del Naja or the cartoonist Jaime Hewlett?
Another very popular hypothesis regarding Banksy’s identity indicates that he is actually rapper Robert Del Naja, from the group “Massive Attack” and who is also a graffiti artist who spent years working in Bristol under the name 3D.
The theory came to light following DJ Goldie talked regarding Banksy on a podcast and said: “No disrespect to Rob, I think he’s a brilliant artist. I think he’s gone around the world.”
Fans were also able to link two occasions when new Banksy works appeared in the same city where “Massive Attack” was performed but Del Naja denied the reports, saying the rumors were “greatly exaggerated.”
Jamie Hewlett, comic book artist and founder of the English virtual band “Gorillaz”, He is another famous man associated with the figure of Banksy. In 2022 a forensic expert obtained data showing that his name was associated with all companies related to the artist.
Bolstering the theory, Banksy’s gorilla artwork was used in the Gorillaz music video”Tomorrow Comes Today”but Banksy’s representatives once denied the speculation.
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