+Bank-Sea
Every so often, art breaks out of its confines to become an event. People who would never normally go to a gallery do so; they feel part of it when they would otherwise feel excluded. The last time this happened was when Olafur Eliasson put a giant sun and a mirrored ceiling in Tate Modern and teenagers rolled around on the ground making shapes they could see reflected in the roof.
And it's happening now at Banksy versus Bristol Museum, the exhibition the elusive graffiti artist suddenly unveiled last week, in which he has his "remixed" the museum's own collection by putting more than 100 of his own artworks among it - by far the largest Banksy show to date, of work mostly never shown in the UK before
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reminds me of the installation that TWist, Espo, and REAS "Street Market" show.
Posted by: daniel dienelt | June 17, 2009 11:13 AM
so great.
Posted by: critic | June 17, 2009 06:22 PM