Similar patterns were reported around tours dating back to 2003. The band played Toronto a week later, before murals were reported there, too, and this was replicated when they played Boston. For example, six Banksy murals appeared in San Francisco in 2010, just days after Massive Attack performed two shows there. There’s some compelling evidence for the theory. 3D was a graffiti artist in the 1980s and has admitted he is friends with Banksy-but the journalist’s new research concludes he may be the artist himself.” Williams has plotted Banksy murals around the world and said that on at least six occasions more than a dozen appeared shortly before or after Massive Attack gigs in the same cities over the past 12 years. While the paper in 2008 formerly pointed to Robin Gunningham as the true identity of Banksy, with scientists analyzing and confirming that theory, investigative journalist Craig Williams now claims the artist could either be Del Naja, or a team of people led by him and linked to the band. “The hunt for the true identity of Banksy took a new twist today after a member of Massive Attack was named as the artist by an investigator,” Daily Mail reported yesterday. UK newspaper Daily Mailreports this week on a new theory regarding the true identity of the world’s most notorious street artist, Banksy, with Massive Attackfounding member Robert “3D” Del Naja pointed to as the real idenity. The footage was filmed in 2003 ahead of his Turf War exhibition - but then lay in a vault for nearly two decades.Of all the weird theories to surface on the internet, this could be one of the strangest seen in the music world for a while, but also one of the most plausible.
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He has given fans one brief glimpse of himself in an unearthed TV interview from 17 years ago. There are plenty of theories about the identity of Bristolian Banksy. She approaches the graffiti artist before he tells her to “f**k off” and flees the scene. The footage shows a bespectacled man in jeans, a dark jacket, hoodie and a cap. YouTube user Mia S claimed she had caught Banksy in the act after believing she had filmed the artist in Melbourne, Australia. The notion it is Guetta springs from the idea that the hapless artist was only feigning mediocrity in the film and it was really Banksy hiding in plain sight. Some though think Guetta and Banksy are the same person. The film tells the story of Guetta and his obsession with documenting his life on film. The French graffiti artist living in Los Angeles, who is also known as Mr Brainwash, is seen in Banksy's documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. The New York spraypainter Pfeiffer was spotted in front of a mural done by Banksy in March 2015 and was accused of being the famous artist by the cops.
Journalist Craig Williams had previously carried out an investigation into Banksy and concluded that Banksy was not just one person but a team of street artists with Del Naja, 52, as the ringleader.ĭel Naja has occasionally designed the artwork for Massive Attack’s albums, including 2010’s Heligoland which featured stencil art not dissimilar to Banksy’s style.ĭel Naja though as denied the rumour saying it was “greatly exaggerated”.
I think he has flipped the world of art over." "No disrespect to Robert, I think he is a brilliant artist. In an interview with spoken word poet Scroobius Pip for a podcast Del Naja said: "Give me a bubble letter and put it on a t-shirt and write 'Banksy' on it and we're sorted. The band’s founding member and Goldie have been friends for a long time and were both graffiti artists in the late 1980s. The researchers looked for signs of correlation between 140 artworks in London and Bristol that have been attributed to Bansky, finding stylistic similarities between the two.ĭrum and bass star Goldie is thought to have revealed Banksy’s identity as the Massive Attack star known as 3D in an interview in 2017. The technique uses statistical analysis used in police work to locate repeat offenders. Bristol artist Robin Gunningham was thought to be Banksy after criminologists at London’s Queen Mary University used ‘geographic profiling’ in an attempt to reveal his identity.
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