April 13, 2010 Thierry Guetta Is Not Real
Who is Thierry Guetta? Camera man turned street art superstar.
Who is Thierry Guetta? A spectacle, a construction – the reaction of an artist who has seen his art for the street, and for the people, consumed and captured and sold.
Who is Thierry Guetta? A joke. A punch line. A masterpiece.
What better way to one-up the “art world”, one that took what Banksy produced on our streets and sold it for £25,000/ £50,400/ £57,000/ £102,000/ £37,200/ £31,200/ £96,000/ £72,000/ £33,600, than to create this persona that creates unreal nothings and sells it for prices picked out of the air? Exit through the gift shop.
No doubt the man is real, but who is Thierry Guetta?
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Tags: Art, Banksy, Culture Industry
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