Banksy speaks! The ever elusive road artist, whose id is all the time the topic of feverish hypothesis, supposedly pops up on a protracted misplaced interview posted right now on the BBC web site as a part of The Banksy Story sequence. The artist was interviewed by the previous arts correspondent Nigel Wrench in the summertime of 2003 to mark the opening of Banksy’s fabled Turf Conflict present in east London. The individual interviewed, talking in a gentle West nation burr, was a “younger bloke in a hoodie”, says Wrench.
Wrench’s chat with the nameless artist is intriguing; the reporter factors out to Banksy that a few of the works within the exhibition—together with painted animals comparable to a cow daubed with Andy Warhol’s face—are anarchist statements. “It’s not a lot anarchy…. Who has the fitting to guage anyone else?” the artist says. And does he need to put politics again into artwork? “I don’t think about myself to be that political…I’ve even had policemen up to now say they form of like issues about it.” Requested about mega collector Charles Saatchi hoovering up his works in the meantime, Banksy retorts: “I’d by no means knowingly promote something to Charles Saatchi.”
The interviewee talks particularly about his quirky strategy to creating graffiti works. “In the identical manner my mom used to prepare dinner Sunday roast each Sunday and says each Sunday, ‘it takes hours to make it, minutes to eat’. Today she eats microwave meals for one and appears lots happier. I am form of taking that strategy to artwork actually. I need to get it carried out and dusted,” says “Banksy”. Crucially, Wrench asks him if he’s known as “Robert Banks”; the artist replies: “It’s Robbie.” The masks has slipped it appears (just a bit bit).
