How to see the artist Banksy "performing" and smashing the work at the auction?

On the morning of October 6th, when I read the overwhelming news about Banksy's "new work", I immediately felt that there were too many angles to comment on and supplementary threads. Discuss and discuss all kinds of contemporary art.

So far, there are not many official comments in the English-speaking world and the Chinese-speaking world, and everyone is still digesting how to interpret this matter. I wrote something in a hurry that morning. It was not a formal comment, but I just wanted to open up the possibility of discussion and share it here.

I really want to know, what do you think?

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Banksy's "really" produced works are free ideas that can be used by everyone

At the Sotheby's auction, Banksy's painting Girl with a Balloon was originally auctioned, and someone in the market was willing to bid 10 million Hong Kong dollars to buy it, because the artist has established a strong foundation in art history through years of resistance to the art system. classic status. This is the most typical logic that Banksy cannot resist. As long as his name and "brand" are valuable, his "work" can be circulated in the market, and the market value of the work will be extremely high, and he cannot stop it.

Banksy hid a remote-controlled paper shredder in the picture frame, and the painting was shredded in a planned way the moment it was sold at the auction, and the "work" itself was immediately valued higher. (Is it really possible that Sotheby’s didn’t know about the tight security and “inspection” process of the auction? I don’t care about this for now) The moment Girl with a Balloon was smashed, its “artistic quality” transitioned to an idea Above: Everyone can try to create such a work. During the process of its circulation in the art world, the "form" can continue to be controlled and changed by the artist, without being controlled by others-a possibility of autonomy.

The pile of shredded notes is now worth more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars, because those notes now embody an idea that Banksy "really" produced through that spectacle. However, as an action against the system, conceptual intervention can only be used as a double-edged sword, which can be said to be fully revealed. The shredded paper may be auctioned off for another 20 million Hong Kong dollars, and the value of rebellion will be marketed instantly, which is an inescapable "exchange value." But another value of the work, "use value", is an idea that everyone can try to practice and appropriate: try to hide the "possibility of destruction" in a specific institutional environment.

The most amazing thing about this "possibility of destruction" is that Banksy is the one who can't do it: because the market value of the work has increased rapidly, he can't respond to the logic he wants to resist; In different scenes, hidden, surprising, and various "possibility of destruction" are created to destroy the original logic of a scene. This free idea is the "artistic" and works created by Banksy through a "big dragon and phoenix".

But having said that, this idea is not very innovative. Instead, the innovation lies in the form of execution, and it links the physicality of the artwork. But if this "work" cannot destroy the logic of the scene it is going to intervene in, how should we evaluate it? Does it also use the most direct method to express the huge power of art world to absorb rebellion and destruction? This type of creation must always follow suit, and rebellion and destruction will be constantly absorbed, so the response must be very dynamic and changeable, but it is also the most interesting thing about creating and commenting on this type of work.