Off the wall: Banksy murals move from West Bank to Miami
Palestinian protest paintings fail to sell on eBay,
spend a season in the Hamptons and are now heading for Florida fair
By Anny Shaw. Art Market
Another version of Stop and Search can still be seen in Bethlehem
Two murals attributed to Banksy, which were
originally painted in Bethlehem in 2007 and re-emerged amid controversy
in an exhibition at the Keszler Gallery in the Hamptons, near New York,
in August 2011, are due to go on show in Miami in December. The removal
of the works, Stop and Search and Wet Dog, from the West Bank sparked
fierce criticism from some in the trade, who said the murals should have
been left in situ and that the galleries involved had no right to take
them.
The works, together with
Kissing Coppers, around 2005, salvaged from a pub wall in Brighton on the south coast of England, and
Out of Bed Rat,
2002, originally painted in Los Angeles, will feature in “Banksy Out of
Context” (5-9 December), an exhibition of the British street artist’s
murals. The show is part of the debut edition of Context, a contemporary
art fair organised by Art Miami. It is being produced in conjunction
with Stephan Keszler, the owner of the eponymous gallery, and Robin
Barton, the owner of London’s Bankrobber Gallery. They came under fire
last year for transporting
Stop and Search and
Wet Dog
from the West Bank to the US. According to Barton, however, they did not
take the works directly from their original sites; instead, the murals
had been removed around a year after they were painted and left in a
stonemason’s yard in Bethlehem before Barton and Keszler bought them.
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