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Debate: Banksy works on sale at new exhibition

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Mark Brown, arts correspondent
Wednesday February 20, 2008
The Guardian
Eight years ago a hard-up student spent the last £300 of his student loan on a piece of art. Next week it will be displayed in a commercial art gallery with a price tag of £150,000. The work in question, Riot Green, is one of more than 60 pieces by Banksy to go on show in the biggest ever commercial exhibition organised for the urban artist; it will include six pieces never exhibited.
Prices for Banksy's work have rocketed; at last week's charity Red Auction at Sotheby's in New York one was sold for more than $1.8m (£921,000).

London dealer Acoris Andipa, who is responsible for buying much of Banksy's work, will host the month-long exhibition at the Andipa Gallery. "From the very beginning I got involved because of the aesthetic - he is just brilliant, I think he's a genius. Good contemporary art is all about how well artists reflect our society and I think Banksy is like a present day Punch magazine."

For many people Banksy will always be the anonymous street satirist and the exhibition will include works originally made for the street such as Flower Thrower from a road sign in Berlin. But Acoris said they had not included any street work for sale because it was meant "for the people".

Among the unseen work is a 2006 piece called Roadwork Rat and Lenin on Roller Blades, from 2003. The work Riot Green will be on sale after being auctioned last year by student Gez Smith for nearly £80,000, a considerable return on his £300 investment.

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