Banksy celebrated Valentine's Day with a work that denounces gender violence on a wall in the town of Margate, in the southeast of the United Kingdom.
The British artist drew a woman in an apron and yellow cleaning gloves, a housewife with a 1950s aesthetic, with a black eye and a broken tooth, who throws a man into a freezer.
The mural, on this occasion, not only takes advantage of a wall, but also the real furniture abandoned around this building.
Next to the fridge from which the feet of a man come out, there was a chair, a frying pan, a bottle... Hours after Banksy confirmed his authorship through his Instagram account, cleaning workers from the city council of the locality removed all these objects.
The
Valentine's Mask mural
was decontextualized.
The Banksy mural after the passage of the city hall workers. HANNAH MCKAY (REUTERS)
“The graffiti is located on the wall of a private property.
A freezer that appears to be part of the facility was removed by municipal agents for security reasons, since it was on public land," the mayor's office explained in a statement collected by AFP.
The freezer “will be returned when it is guaranteed to be safe,” she said, adding that they will “contact the property owner to discuss how to preserve the artwork for the district.”
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Before the removal of the objects, the mayor of Margate, Heather Keen, had said that the city was going to "look into how to protect and preserve it, because we are very proud to have it here", referring to the work.
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Already in 2020, a month before the start of the pandemic, Banksy gave his hometown, Kristol, in the west of the United Kingdom, a mural for Valentine's Day with a little girl with a catapult with which she launches flowers and they end up splashed by the wall of the building.
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