After several months without new work unveiled, A stencil attributed to the Street-Artist Banksy Was discovered on Friday on the facade of a building in Marseille in a discreet street, very close to one of the beaches of the second city in France on the Mediterranean coast.
The work of art represents a dark lighthouse which emits a white light, covered with a sentence in English: “I want to be what you saw in me” (“I want to be what you saw in me”). It is the artist himself, whose identity always remains mysterious, who had revealed a photo of his drawing, without making a comment, on his Instagram profile.
Except that two days after its appearance, the work was degraded in the night from Saturday to Sunday … before being restarted. Violet in color, the smear was made up of two roughly painted testicles on each side of the work.
The degradation was quickly cleaned Sunday in the morning. “I tried to clean tags that were made last night, because in fact, it takes a certain waiting time for the anti-graffiti protection varnish to be really operational,” said Agnès Perrone, painter in heritage decor “to give a helping hand”.
“They waited until I went to bed, even very late, to add a beautiful pair of balls around the lighthouse,” she grew while watching the surroundings to avoid her degradation.
“I find it very stupid. But at the same time, I am used to it, I am Marseille: it is a national sport to fight the tags, here, ”she added.
A worldly recognized artist
Banksy’s works reported several Tens of millions of dollarsmaking him one of the most famous living artists in the world. One of his paintings was awarded 5 million euros at auction in March. L’Partial and provocative self -destruction of its canvas in October 2018just after its acquisition at Sotheby’s in London by a collector for more than a million euros, had also created a planetary buzz.
They often carry powerful and provocative messages, on themes such as war as in Ukraine in 2022, capitalism, social control or even human rights.
