A report signed for Reuters by journalists Simon Gardner, James Pearson and Blake Morrison confirms that they have finally confirmed the true identity Banksygraphite, which has since surprised the world with works of a high level of protest.
Things that appear mainly on the walls of symbolic places in some of the most important capitals of the world. An example is that you could see last September on one of the outer walls of the Royal Courts of Justice in London, where you could come to court offering a stake to a protester with his fat, in the context of the controversy that sparked the British government’s decision to declare the group a terrorist organization. Palestinian action.
Graffiti that is clear (you can quite clearly make out a stripe like shadow of the original work) that you overlook 23,000 pounds sterling and this is one of the reasons why the most famous graffiti artists in the world hide their identity: from coming to light, it would lead to countless lawsuits for the artist, from fines and sanctions for the deterioration of urban spaces to the most ethereal questions related to ideology.
Reporters who published on the investigation in Reutersand so they projected it into their own text. However, they stated that the media’s policy of transparency was the reason for finally releasing this information: “People and institutions that try to transform political and social discourses are subject to scrutiny and often, to reveal his identity“.
With him, they learned that, after their investigation, a British artist was hiding behind Banksy’s mask Robin Gunningham (Bristol, 1973). To support their assertion, they returned to the appearance of a graffiti artist in Horenc, a village in Kyiv.
These are the three journalists who, while monitoring the compound, saw three men driving an ambulance parked near a half-demolished building due to Russian bombs. Accept various suggestions spray bottles and cardboard plantswhich they used to sculpt one of the interior walls of the apartment (which was now on display) with an image of an elderly man battered in perfumes bathing in a bathroom.
One of the men was quickly identified as British photographer Giles Duley, but their companions initially remained anonymous. When some residents of Horanka were shown photographs of various people who had been “suspicious” of Banksy over the years, they identified Robert Del Najabetter known as 3D, the leader of the music group Massive Attack.
However, the rest of the tests put together by the journalistic triumvirate of Gardner, Pearson and Morrison in their investigation does not match Del Naja’s identityAs a result of Banksy’s artistic activity, he thus became a collaborator.
And so, following what happened in Ukraine in 2022, through various interviews with people looking for another path to the mysterious artist, Reuters reporters discovered a confession signed by Robin Gunningham, who was detained in Manhattan in 2000, which coincides with the first Banksy shootings. What is the reason? Pin the graphite that would be unfinished on the ad page.
This brings us primarily to a book that Steve Lazarides, Banksy’s manager, published in 2008, which details the incident of the artist’s arrest, which was the same year that Gunningham was arrested for the same crime. The representative added photos of the graffiti, which the journalists were responsible for geolocating and concluded that it was exactly the same that Gunningham recognized he had in a political declaration.
But how does this relate to what happened in Ukraine 22 years ago? To solve it, journalists uncover a new piece of data, the final piece of the puzzle. In 2008, when Banksy’s fame and mystery were fully consolidated, Gunningham changed his name to David Jones“José García” from the United Kingdom, the name of the most common one, which would complicate the work of identifying and identifying the artist.
We now record a third member of the group creating graffiti in Horanka alongside Del Naja and Duley. Three Reuters reporters contacted us with strong “intimate knowledge of the immigration process,” which assured them that October 28, 2022 a certain David Jones crossed the border at the same place as Banksy’s two companions. And not only that, until, to make the question clear, the most certain have ascertained that the place of birth which is given in the passport of this David Jones is the same place of birth as that of Gunningham. With all this information, according to journalists, there is little room for doubt.
However, neither Gunningham, nor Banksy, nor the club have confirmed this information. Which is understandable; to finally reveal the identity of the mysterious artist behind the works Niña with the globe or Rage, Lanzador de Flores should it be lost, apart from a small amount of sterling in fines, which is probably the most important value of graphite: on the mystery.
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