I've always resisted saying that I like Banksy. It just seems like such a wank. I mean if Angelina Jolie has done it, it's definitely not cool anymore. But my hat well and truly comes off to his new project, an installation work which critiques our exploitation of animals, called The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill. Banksy explores the inherit hypocracy of the human relationship with animals using animatronics in a faux pet store scene. There are animatronic fish fingers swimming in a fish bowl, chicken nuggets pecking at a container of tomato sauce, hot dogs in terrariums, a rabbit applying cosmetics at a mirror, a chimp listening to head phones while watching television and a miserable, old, featherless Tweety-bird in a cage.
Check out The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill online and today's SMH article on Banksy's New York show.
Oh, to be in New York this October!
1 comment:
I've got similar issues with Banksy and Angelina! With a title like The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill this exhibition is just begging for a graphic novel (or series...). Wanna go to NY?
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