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The British artist Banksy has opened a temporary store in South London where "impractical" and "offensive" objects are sold for charitable purposes and to defend the artist's "brand."
Gross Domestic Product (gross domestic product) has appeared overnight in the Croydon neighborhood, occupying an old disused trade, and will be located there for 15 days, when the pieces can be purchased online .
Unlike other stores, Banksy's will keep the doors closed and the lights on 24 hours a day, as if it were an exhibition, so that the public can appreciate the genre before purchasing it online .
A baby crib monitored by multiple cameras; the armored vest with the British flag that rapper Stormzy wore at the Glastonbury festival or doormats made with life jackets of rescued immigrants on the Mediterranean shores are some of the pieces on offer, which start at a minimum price of 10 pounds (11 ,20 euros).
The store will be open 15 days. Then, sales on the network will continue.
In a statement, Banksy, known for his bold graffiti, said the money obtained from the sale will go "to buy a new immigrant rescue boat to replace the one confiscated by Italian authorities."
"That is, maybe you will be committing a crime if you buy them (the works)," he warned.
Another reason that has led the artist, who keeps his identity a secret, to set up this commercial initiative is, he explained, "the least poetic" imaginable related to artistic creation, as it results from the need to claim his brand .
In the note, his lawyer, Mark Stephens, points out that a card production company with images of Banksy's works has filed a lawsuit claiming total control over the brand.
The artist from Bristol (West English) is "in a difficult position," says the expert, "because he has a name or brand but does not use it for the marketing of products , so that, according to the law, the brand" can be transferred to someone who does. "
As a solution, Stephens proposed that he open his own shop to sell his creations, which also include a children's game in which children can stack wooden figures of immigrants in a transport truck.
Banksy is known for his mural works that appear by surprise in the most unexpected places and for his critical style with established power.
His painting Returned Parliament (2009), owned by a private collector and representing British parliamentarians as chimpanzees, will be auctioned this Thursday at Sotheby's with an estimated price of up to two million pounds (2.25 million euros, 2.4 million dollars), which if reached will be a record for the artist.
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