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I have serious reasons to believe that Banksy in recent years is revolutionizing the concept of artistic expression.
Banksy started as a writer but comfortably ranges from paintings on canvas to installations; each of his works delivers a well-directed slogan and is clear, no exercise of style but plenty of irony and satire aimed at current ethical and cultural values, at politics, multinationals, war, institutions, and his sovereign monarch, all varying between different styles belonging to various and remote eras, for example, his splendid oil painting on canvas in 18th-century style depicting a noble with a suction cup arrow stamped on his forehead or the depiction of a landscape in the same style but with the classic HOME SWEET HOME carpet inscription above.
The work in question is an installation presented at his current exhibition at the Bristol Museum, consisting of a simple bong with marijuana placed next to a refined collection of teacups, considering that the artist (who remained anonymous for many years until being unmasked by a magazine) is English, there was no better way to show that it is an innocent product, which could have been exactly the opposite, that habits and traditions are merely a transfer of values from one generation to another, and it means that traditions are not laws, but rather transmissions of non-rational culture, and Banksy is a genius because even his seemingly simplest works are full of meaning.
I am talking about an artist who managed to infiltrate museums with the aim of stealthily hanging his works among those of more famous artists, managing to go completely unnoticed, an artist who went to the Israeli separation barrier to paint it with murals as a backdrop for peace.
Banksy, ABSOLUTE CONTEMPORARY GENIUS, GURU OF COMMUNICATION.
"Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it" (Robin Gunningham, better known as Banksy)
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