VIDEO: Banksy art piece ‘Trolley Hunter’ stolen from Toronto exhibition
An art piece by Banksy has been stolen from an unauthorized exhibition in Canada.
Video footage has emerged of the thief as he makes away with Banksy’s Trolley Hunter, valued at approximately R462 185. The video shows a man entering the gallery via an interior door shortly after 5am on Sunday. He then makes his way to a wall hung with several framed prints, picks one up and proceeds to leave as he came in.
According to police (and the video) the suspect was wearing glasses, a green camouflage baseball hat, blue jeans rolled at the cuff and grey running shoes.
“We can confirm a piece of art went missing during setup of The Art of Banksy exhibition in Toronto. The incident was reported to the police who are currently investigating the disappearance,” Corey Ross, president of Starvox Exhibits, said.
Unauthorized exhibition
The art work was showcased in Toronto at an unauthorized exhibition of Banksy’s work called The Art of Banksy. The exhibition features nearly 80 pieces from a private collection, valued at $35 million (R469 661 500).
Trolley Hunter depicts 3 crouching hunters- with one pointing a spear at a clustering of shopping carts.
The exhibition was unauthorized, with Banksy publicly disowning both the show and its curator, Steve Lazarides, who is his former agent and worked with him for nearly a decade.
Banksy’s work has long been subject to robberies, though more commonly carried out on his public works rather than private exhibitions. In 2004 his giant satire of Rodin’s The Thinker was stolen in the middle of the day in central London.
It’s interesting that the art work was stolen out of an unauthorised exhibition.
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