Coronavirus: Banksy’s bath infested with playful rats during the covid-19 lockdown

A group of stunt rats infest Banky’s lackluster bathroom in the latest work by the famous British street artist.

A grim comment on life locked up, the guerilla-stenciller shared a series of images showing a gloomy Trainspottingbathroom-style, complete with brown bathroom stains, toothpaste stains, and mold-stained walls, in a post on her official Instagram.

Smeared on the walls and causing all the fuss, a flock of Banksy’s signature rats, swaying from light chords, pounding on the mirror and untangling rolls of toilet paper, perhaps in a subtle dig at the images of terrified people buying toilet paper before Covid-19 bull running events worldwide.

“My wife hates it when I work from home,” the piece underlined.

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Despite the general humidity, with that abysmal ceiling light and shabby brown towels hanging from the shower rail, it appears to be a used bathroom that’s part of a home. But it’s not clear if it’s actually Banksy or a model.

The identity of the artist, who has been secretly dropping art around the world since the 1990s, is still unknown, though there is no shortage of theories, claims, and conjectures.

However, unlike the street artist’s usual rat pictures, these appear to be hand painted on the walls of the room, rather than patterned.

It is not the first time that Bansky has ventured into decoration. The artist, best known for off-the-wall art with powerful, if cynical, cultural, political, social and political themes, opened a home goods store in Croydon, outside London, in October 2019.

Contrary to click and cash, gross domestic profit forced shoppers to jump through hoops before they could purchase items offered in the store.

Satirical furnishings included sofa cushions with mocking phrases, empty cans of spray paint, and shop mugs with their rats marked on them.

The store’s website was captioned: “Where Art Irritates Life.”

In February of this year, a new template piece in Banksy’s hometown of Bristol, celebrating (or teasing, it’s never entirely clear) Valentine’s Day was smashed. Before the vandalism attack, the image / installation had drawn crowds on the corner of the suburban street.

It is also possible that the vandalism, which included a pink love heart and profanity directed at the Bristol City Council, may have been part of the job.

Banksy’s work often comes with a bit of an act.

In 2005, he posted a photo of a man pushing a shopping cart in the National Gallery in London that went undetected for days. and in 2006, it smuggled in a bloated orange mannequin representing a Guantanamo Bay detainee at Disneyland, however the mannequin was promptly removed.

In 2013, he unveiled a month of art installations in New York that included a slaughterhouse van filled with plush cries circulating around the city. The event became a documentary. Banksy does New York.

Two years later, he opened the fake Dismaland theme park, designed to irritate and surprise visitors in equal measure, followed by a sightless pro-Palestinian protest hotel called The Walledoff Hotel in Bethlehem in 2017.

In October 2018, his spray painted canvas Little girl with balloon it was sold at auction for $ 2.1 million. Seconds after the hammer fell, the frame turned into a shredder and crushed the image in half.

A lengthy commentary on the state of the art world, the destruction actually increased the value of the work.

At the time of the sale, the head of European contemporary art at Sotheby’s auction house Alex Branczik said: “It looks like we just received Banksy’d.”