Suspected Banksy composition of migrant child in a life-jacket holding a flare appears beside Venice Canal
BANKSY is believed to be behind a mural which has emerged in Venice which depicts a migrant girl in a life-jacket holding a flare. The striking composition shows streaming pink smoke flowing behind the little child as she stands at the water’s edge beside a Venetian canal. It cropped up on the island of Dorsoduro […]
BANKSY is believed to be behind a mural which has emerged in Venice which depicts a migrant girl in a life-jacket holding a flare.
The striking composition shows streaming pink smoke flowing behind the little child as she stands at the water’s edge beside a Venetian canal.
It cropped up on the island of Dorsoduro last week and apparently coincides with the city’s world famous Biennale art exhibition, where each country submits artworks.
This year’s theme is the “condition of late capitalism, lurching from crisis to crisis”.
The alleged Banksy has been dubbed “The Shipwrecked Child”.
The Sun Online has contacted Banksy’s authentication team — but it had not yet commented and nor has the artist’s social media accounts.
Last month striking graffiti appeared on Marble Arch and showed a small child clutching a sign with the logo of eco-warriors Extinction Rebellion who brought parts of central London to a standstill with their demonstrations.
The plight of marooned migrants and refugees, who are being pulled to the wealthier west has been explored in previous works.
In 2015, he stencilled an image of Apple founder Steve Jobs — the son of a Syrian refugee — onto the Calais migrant camp.
Called “The Jungle”, that piece showed Jobs carrying an Apple computer and a black bin bag.
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On that work, in a rare statement, Banksy said: “We’re often led to believe migration is a drain on the country’s resources but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant.
“Apple is the world’s most profitable company, it pays over $7bn (£4.6bn) a year in taxes — and it only exists because they allowed in a young man from Homs.”
According to The Art Newspaper, the new piece has “all the characteristics of a Banksy”.
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