'The Naked Truth/Barely Legal' by Banksy, 2006
Rare original full-issue Swindle Magazine from January, 2006 plus...
Very Rare original card from Banksy's 'Barely Legal' art show...
...Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 15-17, 2006.
11 x 9 x 0.3 Inches / 28 x 23 x 0.8 Centimeters (magazine).
6 x 4 Inches / 15.2 x 10.2 Centimeters (card).
19 x 25 x 1.5 Inches (framed)
Offset lithograph show card with...
Collectible original 160-page Limited Edition Swindle Magazine from 2006 featuring artwork by Banksy on front and back cover.
(The oft-missing Sticker booklet of graffiti tags from Swindle included).
*Note: Professionally custom double-matted in acid-free, archival materials, UV-protective plexi-glass and black hardwood molding.
ABOUT THE ART
This rare Swindle Magazine issue (#8), featuring 'Banksy; A Naked Truth', a 10-page interview with the reclusive artist by Shepard Fairey and Roger Gastman, titled 'The Man, The Myth, The Miscreant' (with artwork by Banksy, front and back covers).
This US quarterly publication (which ran only from 2004-2009) had the artist Shepard Fairey as the Senior Creative Director and Roger Gastman as Editor-in-Chief.
Significantly, Banksy's 2006 interview coincided with with his highly-acclaimed and star-studded art show, 'Barely Legal' in Los Angeles; widely considered to be his international break-out exhibition (it was held over the weekend of September 15-17, 2006), catapultting him to international recognition (and infamy).
BARELY LEGAL SHOW...
A 3-Day Vandalized Warehouse Extravaganza...
Barely Legal was Banksy’s third major exhibition. It was held in a warehouse in Los Angeles on the weekend of September 16, 2006.
Billed as a “three-day vandalized warehouse extravaganza,” the exhibition featured a literal, live “elephant in a room” painted in a pink and gold floral wallpaper pattern, which, according to leaflets handed out at the exhibition, was intended to draw attention to the issue of world poverty. Banksy continued exploring the “modified oils” genre from his previous exhibition Crude Oils.
The opening of the exhibition was on 16 September 2006 and, just like Turf War, the address of the exhibition was not revealed to the public until the morning of the opening. Despite the short notice, the ceremony was attended by renowned artists, curators, critics, collectors, as well as many celebrities and influential personalities.
Banksy's 'Barely Legal' show manifesto:
There’s an elephant in the room.
There’s a problem we never talk about.
The fact is that life is not getting any fairer.
1.7 Billion people have no access to clean drinking water.
20 Billion people live below the poverty line.
Every day hundreds of people are made to feel physically sick by morons at art shows telling them how bad the world is but never actually doing something about it.
Anybody want a free glass of wine?