The moment iconic $1.2MILLION Banksy painting Girl With Balloon SELF-DESTRUCTS

[HobbyTrading]

Not only that but what about power supply? The history list's 2007 as the date of this work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_Girl

Exactly. The work was created quite some time ago. If there was indeed a remote control built in, how could it have "stayed alive" for such a long period of time? Regular batteries would have been depleted by now.

 

[Sprout]

Exactly. The work was created quite some time ago. If there was indeed a remote control built in, how could it have "stayed alive" for such a long period of time? Regular batteries would have been depleted by now.

One time as a teenager I was messing with my father's hand-held film motion picture camera. Surprisingly it began running, upon checking dates it turns out that the batteries were over a decade old.

It could explain why the shredding stopped halfway through the canvas.


The batteries were Duracell's.

or the whole thing was staged with a tight inner circle. This seems unlikely given his body of work.

 

[destriero]

Exactly. The work was created quite some time ago. If there was indeed a remote control built in, how could it have "stayed alive" for such a long period of time? Regular batteries would have been depleted by now.

9V powering the CDMA receiver and alkaline D cells powering the shredder. Alkaline have at least a 10- year shelf life.

 

[tomorton]

I'm just hoping more of his art can go the same way. Also all that junk by Antony Gormley, Yves Klein and quite a few others.

 

[mlawson71]

The funniest part is that it is now even more expensive.

 

[dealmaker]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...lf-destructing-through-built-in-shredder.html

 

[dealmaker]

CCTV captures Banksy dressed as workman