Red paint to cancel Banksy's homage to Oscar Wilde. Thus, according to the Guardian, the last work of the artist was defaced, which appeared at the beginning of the month on the wall surrounding the prison in Reading, where the poet was incarcerated for a homosexual relationship between 1895 and 1897.
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From that experience was born the poem 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol', which reflected on the brutality of the Victorian penal system.
And Banksy's work is inspired by that experience: a prisoner on the run hanging from a long and narrow white sheet covered with writing, which flows from an old typewriter.
'The create escape' the title of the work that lasted a few days before a spray can erased the typewriter and replaced it with the signature 'Team Robbo', the group that refers to the artist King Robbo, who died in 2014 and always Banksy's rival.
It is difficult to trace the perpetrators, what is certain is that the artist's mural was intended to support the redevelopment of the prison, abandoned since 2013, then put up for sale by the government in 2019, finally, after the failure of the agreement with a construction group , now waiting to determine if the town hall can transform it into an artistic center.
Proposal supported by many VIPs, now also by Banksy.
