Banksy announces first solo art exhibition in 14 years in Glasgow

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Banksy has announced his first solo exhibition in 14 years titled CUT & RUN: 25 years card labour. The exhibition will open at the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art on Sunday, June 18.

It will showcase works from across Banksy’s career, stretching from 1998 to 2023. New stencil versions of some of his famous pieces along with the original sketches behind them will be featured as well as some which have never previously been seen.A few of Banksy’s famous pieces such as  ‘Girl With a Balloon,’ ‘Mobile Lovers’, which depicts a couple embracing as stare at their own phones over each other’s shoulders, and ‘Kissing Coppers’, which first appeared on a wall of the Prince Albert pub in Brighton in 2004, will be on view.A post shared by Banksy (@banksy)CUT & RUN: 25 years card labour aims to reveal the behind-the-scenes process of how his works are made.

The large exhibition also includes a detailed model explaining exactly how Banksy managed to shred his Girl With Balloon painting during an auction at Sotheby’s in London in 2018.The exhibition will also include various items such as Banksy’s own toilet, the Union Flag stab vest worn by Stormzy when he headlined Glastonbury in 2019, and pieces previously only seen in Bethlehem in the West Bank, including a pillow fight between an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian citizen.In a statement, the artist shared: “I’ve kept these stencils hidden away for years, mindful they could be used as evidence in a charge of criminal damage.

But that moment seems to have passed, so now I’m exhibiting them in a gallery as works of art. I’m not sure which is the greater crime.”On choosing to have the exhibition in the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, he explained that it is due to his “favourite work of.