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“Exit Through the Gift Shop” is a nightmare of a film, but not in the way one might expect. Preconceptions of an aesthetically-pleasing, Banksy-produced documentation of Street Art tumble as quickly as one artist’s bucket of paint in the opening...
But the film, although an important artifact of this transient genre, is also a critique of street art. “Exit Through the Gift Shop” takes a tragic plunge when, after eight years of gathering footage, Guetta abdicates the camera and begins to create his own street...
Renting a former Hollywood studio and filling it with over 200 paintings, sculptures and prints, and an installation of 25,000 books, the exhibition is of comically immense scale. But the media-hype and careful manipulation of marketing strategies ensures Guetta’s circus is a ground-breaking success...
The irony in this exhibitionist charade, despite the 4,000 people pouring through the doors on the first day alone, is the lack of ground-breaking inspiration in any of MBW’s work. His pieces are unoriginal. They resemble and imitate all of the work he has spent...
“Exit Through the Gift Shop” is, much like its maker, both exhilarating and infuriating. It is brilliant, eccentric, and wild. The viewer gets precious glimpses into the creative process of Banksy himself as he hurriedly fixes, by flashlight, one of his infamous mouse stencils on...