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Banksy fans move an entire wall – to save his work from, er, graffiti artists…

He made his name through graffiti artwork, but now one of Banksy’s murals has had to be rescued – from graffiti.
Two fans of the secretive guerrilla artist are spending thousands of pounds to restore a giant artwork called Large Graffiti Slogan, after vandals ‘defaced’ it with spray paint.
A team of builders cut out the three-ton section of reinforced concrete wall carrying the street art, lifted it by crane on to a lorry and took it to a secret location where it will be cleaned up.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231758/Banksy-fans-entire-wall–save-work-er-graffiti-artists.html#ixzz0YCP2SAhb

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One Response to “Banksy fans move an entire wall – to save his work from, er, graffiti artists…”

  1. Banksy Fans entfernen komplette Wand um sie vor – ähhm – Graffiti zu retten » BIGOD:NET says:
    November 30, 2009 at 3:32 am

    [...] Das ist schon bizzar. Graffiti wird vor Graffiti gerettet. Wenn der Künstler gewollt hätte, daß sein Kunstwerk für die Ewigkeit sein soll, dann hätte er es bestimmt nicht an eine öffentliche Wand gepackt. Da fällt einem echt nichts mehr ein. Die ganze Geschichte gibt es hier. (via) [...]

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