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Banksy reveals he meant to shred entire artwork
Banksy’s self-shredding artwork was meant to be entirely shredded but the machine malfunctioned, the elusive graffiti artist has revealed.
Publishing a ‘director’s cut’ version of the behind the scenes video, Banksy wrote that the shredder hidden inside the frame had worked every time while he and his team set up the stunt.
The Bristol artist also revealed the mechanism was started by somebody sat in the auction room with a remote control.
is needed now More than ever
The artwork, Girl With Balloon, sold at Sotheby’s for more than one million pounds, but the new artwork created, now renamed Love is in the Bin, is thought to now be worth significantly more.
The remote control used to start the shredder
Reactions in the auction room
“In rehearsals it worked every time…”
Read more: Banksy artwork shreds itself after £1m auction sale
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