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Banksy at work in the Rivington Street tunnel

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Banksy

Rivington Street Tunnel Exhibition (poster), 2000
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A4 sized
£7,500.00
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Announcement for Banksy's ground-breaking first ever 'exhibition' in London. This event took place on May 31st, 2000 in Shoreditch (East London) in the Rivington Street tunnel below the railway line....
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Announcement for Banksy's ground-breaking first ever 'exhibition' in London.

This event took place on May 31st, 2000 in Shoreditch (East London) in the Rivington Street tunnel below the railway line.

The walls either side of what today is the entrance to the Cargo nightclub, quite a busy cut-through thoroughfare, were painted with Banksy's 'greatest hits' of the time.

Speaking to a reporter from the Independent newspaper at the time, he explained the idea came to him whilst arguing with a friend coming out of a pub one evening how easy it would be to stage a show in London without seeking anyone's permission in a public place.

Banksy went on to describe the circumstances around the event in his 2001 book 'Banging Your Head Against A Brick Wall':

 “A week later we came back to the same tunnel with two buckets of paint and a letter. The letter was a forged invoice from a mickey mouse Arts organization wishing us luck with the “Tunnel Vision mural project”. We hung up some decorator’s signs nicked off a building site and painted the walls white wearing overalls. We got the artwork up in twenty five minutes and held an opening party later that week with beers and some hip hop pumping out the back of a transit van”.
The 'illicit outdoor gallery experience' consisted of over a dozen of Banksy's well-known stencil works including his 'Laugh now' chimpanzees, Lenin, Weston-Super-Mare and his Flower Thrower, executed directly onto the tunnel walls which he had pre-painted in white emulsion beforehand.
The rest, as they say, was history.
Very rare.
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The Artist | Private collection (UK) | Artificial Gallery (London)
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