Banksy Raffles Off Refugee Boat Sculpture For £2 – 班克斯·莱佛士为难民船雕塑创作2英镑

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05 Dec 2018

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Banksy Raffles Off Refugee Boat Sculpture For £2

5 Dec 2018

For a minimum donation, buyers can win the street artist’s overloaded boat by guessing its weight

Banksy, How heavy it weighs, 2015. Courtesy: Instagram

Banksy Raffles Off Refugee Boat Sculpture For £2 - 班克斯·莱佛士为难民船雕塑创作2英镑

Banksy, How heavy it weighs, 2015. Courtesy: Instagram

Street artist Banksy is raffling one of his artworks for a minimum donation of GBP£2 in aid of a refugee support initiative. The work, How heavy it weighs (2015) – an overcrowded remote-control boat filled with refugees – will be won by anyone who can correctly guess the weight of the model to the nearest metric unit.

Announcing the raffle on his Instagram page, Banksy said that money made from the work, which featured in his 2015 Weston-super-Mare ‘bemusement’ theme park ‘Dismaland’, will go towards Help Refugees, an organization that specializes in fieldwork, giving aid and establishing local networks, manages over 25,000 volunteers and supports more than 80 projects across Europe and the Middle East.

The Banksy work is currently on display on Carnaby Street in London at a pop-up ‘refugee service store,’ called Choose Love. Guesses can be submitted online and the charity’s website specifies the dimensions and materials of the item. The winner will be informed after the competition closes at 8pm on 22 December.

‘Is it a darkly satirical work of art or a remote control toy in very bad taste? It might be both. It certainly is unique and it could be yours in time for Christmas,’ Choose Love described the work on its website.

Banksy touched on the subject of the migrant crisis in various pieces displayed at ‘Dismaland’. In addition, he donated wood and structural elements used to construct the theme park to Calais refugee camps so that they could be used to help build shelters. Banksy also visited the camp to spray-paint some murals, including one of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs who was the son of a Syrian refugee.

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新闻/新闻2018年12月5日猜猜它的重量,银行部,它多重,2015年。礼貌:Instagram Banksy Raffles Off Refugee Boat Sculpture For £2 - 班克斯·莱佛士为难民船雕塑创作2英镑 Banksy,它多重,2015。礼貌:Instagram街头艺术家Banksy正在抽彩他的一幅艺术品,以获得2英镑的最低限度捐赠,以帮助难民支援行动。这项名为《它有多重(2015年)——一艘满载难民的过度拥挤的遥控船——的工作将由任何能正确猜出模型到最近的公制单位的重量的人获得。班克斯在他的Instagram页面上宣布了抽奖,他说,这项工作赚的钱将用于帮助难民,一个专门从事实地工作、提供援助和建立当地网络的组织,管理着超过25000名志愿者,并支持更多的志愿者。遍布欧洲和中东的80多个项目。目前,在伦敦卡纳比街,一家名为“选择爱”的弹出式难民服务商店,正在展出Banksy的作品。猜测可以在网上提交,慈善机构的网站会指定项目的尺寸和材料。比赛将于12月22日下午8点结束,届时将通知获胜者。是暗淡的讽刺艺术品还是品味极差的遥控玩具?也许两者都有。《选择爱》在其网站上描述了这幅作品。班克斯在“迪斯马兰德”展览上展出了各种各样的作品,触及了移民危机的主题。此外,他还向加莱难民营捐赠了用于建造主题公园的木材和结构元素,以便它们能够被用来帮助建造避难所。班克西还参观了营地喷漆一些壁画,其中包括一位已故苹果创始人史蒂夫·乔布斯,他是叙利亚难民的儿子。新闻/银行新闻难民危机


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