Identität von Banksy, Oscar-nominierter Graffiti-Künstler, „unumstritten“ erwiesen

A new report claims to have once-and-for-all unmasked the elusive graffiti artist Banksy, who has been operating under complete anonymity since the early 1990s.

The investigation, published Friday by Reuters, combs through and eventually sets aside some of the buzzier theories as to the „Girl with Balloon“ artist’s true identity. Is he the Massive Attack frontman Robert Del Naja? Or the street artist Thierry Guetta, also known as Mr. Brainwash, who was the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, which Banksy directed and — completely disguised, of course — also featured in?

After nearly three decades of speculation, journalists Simon Gardner, James Pearson, and Blake Morrison claim „beyond dispute“ that Banksy is a man named Robin Gunningham.

Entertainment Weekly did not immediately hear back from Pest Control Office, the agency the artist founded to sell his work and respond to press requests.

Leave Banksy *alone*!

Hasn’t this been known for years? No one cared, and it changed nothing.

I guess they’ll just recycle this story every few years… because everyone forgets because they don’t care. 🤷‍♂️

*covers ears* 

we are not supposed to know

This name has been linked to Banksy for years, no one has really felt the need to dig any further than that as there is no real reason to. It’s his art that does the speaking and he clearly has no interest to force himself on the message of his art. That’s all there is to it, and all we need to care about.

#People wanna ruin everything…….

Ok fine but sometimes it’s fun to not know things

He’s Banksy to the public. That’s his artistic choice to separate from his privacy and his art. Let it be

Robin Gunningham. Haven’t we known this forever?

His identity’s irrelevant, always has been. If you take one thing away from this, listen to more Massive Attack.

Reuters has lost my respect for going after this story and making their findings public. There was absolutely no reason to do this.