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Entertaining Video of How Banksy's Self-Destructing Artwork was Supposed to Function

Someone paid $1.1 million for partially shredded paper

By Rain Noe - October 19, 2018

in Fine Art

At a Sotheby's auction this month, Banksy had one of his pieces on offer, mounted in a baroque, self-created frame. After the bidding war ended at a staggering £860,000 (USD $1.1 million), an alarm sounded and the frame revealed a surprising capability. Here's how it went down, followed by footage from Banksy of how it was supposed to go down:

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Brad Johnson

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This new cut actually makes sense. You can see the cutting/rolling wheels. The previous versions just showed the X-Acto blades laid parallel to the artwork.

Anyone know what the X-Acto blades purpose were?

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  Maybe they were just part of the process of conception. A visual placeholder. No reason to assume they were meant to be an actual working part of the final mechanism.
  
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