A work of “Banski” in Marseille next to Banksy’s lighthouse

The work appeared on May 30, in the Tunnel on rue Félix-Frégier (7th), a stone’s throw from the Catalans. Similarly, As soon as published on Banksy’s Instagram account. Nevertheless, the lighthouse drawn in the shadow range of a post, accompanied by the sentence “I want to be what you saw in me” (“I want to be what you saw in me“)attracted the crowd, especially the Anglo-Saxons who came in number to attend the same evening at the Bruce Springsteen concert at the Vélodrome.

Dressed in two testicles a few days later. In addition, the stencil of the lighthouse was quickly restored before work “banski” marseille next banksy’s being protected first by a varnish, then by a plexiglass plate by the Marseille painter Richard Campana – already the author of the trompe -l’oeil frescoes, located on the same facade upstream – and the painter in the heritage of the Agnès Perrone heritage.

The device did not fail to react. In addition, theHe defends the idea of a street art by nature free, ephemeral and potentially degraded or erased, others that of a work in its own right to preserve as in a gallery.

A debate on the protection of works – Work "banski" marseille next banksy's

From ? The plexi has itself been tagged. cleaned, just like the wall on which the mysterious Banksy has placed its lighthouse. From now on. the debate is directly part of this tunnel where for three days, a BD type character drawn with a black bomb and signed “Banski”, questions the passer -by, his finger pointed at work “banski” marseille next banksy’s the lighthouse on his left: “Me too will they protect me behind a window?“

On his Instagram account. the Tapas artist claims to have “scratching featuring“In Banksy, questioning his subscribers:”Do you think the sores will also protect him behind a window?“A few meters further. it is on a metal plate that the Italian photographer and street artist Frederico Luvol made this summer a stencil representing a child who blows on a dandelion.

Two achievements that come to echo that of Banksy. now surmounted by tags, and whose original power has lost its superb, in particular with the disappearance of the shadow brought to the ground of the post and the reflection imposed in the eyes of passers -by the protective window.

The fact remains that the adventures of the lighthouse have already aroused ideas with other artists who responded to it. like Franck Conte who made a stencil with the European Cup, or reproduced them, especially in the Lego exhibition presented on rue Saint-Ferréol, but also, in miniature, and work “banski” marseille next banksy’s for sale, equipped with humor of its Marseille testicles … Other works by Banksy remain visible in Toulon Expo is dedicated to him until October.