British street artist Banksy confirmed via a video Friday on his Instagram account that he was indeed the author of several works that have recently appeared in England.
The clip, just over three minutes long, titled “A Great British Spraycation”, depicts the artist's summer journey as he travels in a tired motorhome, spray paint in the cooler.
On a concrete buttress of an English beach, Banksy added a rat, his fetish rodent, sipping a cocktail in a deckchair.
Another work, painted just above a bench, represents a funfair machine clamp, making passers-by who sit on it a prize or a plush to win.
Above a bulky dumpster, the artist has made a gull appear ready to feast on it.
Works always engaged
Echoing the environmental crisis, a stencil painting shows three children, one of whom is bailed with a bucket, on a corrugated iron boat resting against a green brick wall, with the inscription "We're all in the same boat ”(we are all in the same boat).
In the small town of King's Lynn in eastern England, Banksy gives the statue of engineer Frederick Savage, famous for his steam engines, an ice cream cone and tongue to savor it.
On the roof of a bus shelter, he invites dancers and an accordion player, on a miniature house of the Merrivale Model Village, a mention "Go big or go home".
In recent years, the contemporary Bristol artist, who cleverly maintains the mystery of his identity, has kept contemporary art circles spellbound with his emblematic causes (migrants, opposition to Brexit, denunciation of the Islamists) and has driven sales to auction.
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