Since the question keeps coming up. Is there a work by Banksy in Berlin? More than 20 years ago, hardly anyone noticed when he was officially part of an exhibition and painted directly on the wall. And then the painting got its very own story.
The original mural by Banksy ‘Every picture tells a lie’ was created as part of the exhibition ‘Backjumps – Volume:1’ in 2003. After the end of the exhibition it was painted over for the subsequent exhibition. Eight years and many layers later, the work was uncovered again by a restorer commissioned by Brad Downey and presented under the title: ‘What Lies Beneath’, 2011 (Materials: restored/extracted ‘Banksy’). During the exhibition there was speculation about the sale of the work. To prevent this, the artist Brad Downey destroyed the painting with a hammer and chisel. He took the splinters and thus Banksy’s work home with him. Eight years later, in his exhibition ‘Brad Downey – Slow Motion Disasters’ at the same venue, Haus Bethanien in Berlin, parts of the painting returned as ‘Flying Copper’. Whether the story will continue remains to be seen… Three photos of the wall in Bethanien from 2011, as well as the ‘Flying Copper’ can be seen here in the photo gallery.
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