The Drinker | |
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Artist | Banksy |
Year | 2004 |
Medium | Metal |
Condition | Stolen |
Location | London, United Kingdom |
51°31′00″N 0°07′35″W / 51.5167°N 0.1264°W |
The Drinker is a statue by graffiti artist Banksy, not to be confused with the stencil of the same name, a graffiti artwork of a rat drinking a cocktail, on a wall at North Beach, Lowestoft, England. [1] [2]
In 2004, the statue was placed, in a small square at Princes Circus, on Shaftesbury Avenue, between New Oxford Street and High Holborn, central London. [3] [4] It is a subversive comment using The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. [4]
In March 2004, [5] The Drinker was stolen by "art terrorist", football hooligan [6] Andy Link, a former porn star, [6] with an arrest record, [6] and a record of drug charges, [6] (also known as AK47). [7]
Around a year after Link took The Drinker, Link says he registered "the lost and found item" with police, and contacted Banksy, asking for £5,000, or an original canvas, "to cover costs". [8]
In 2007, [8] three years after Link stole it, the sculpture was taken from Link's garden, [9] while he was away. [4] [10]
In December 2015, Link re-installed, as "The Stinker", "an imitation of Banksy’s sculpture" [11] "The Drinker", modified with a toilet seat, cistern, and graffiti, in central London. [12]
"The Stinker" (2015) was a commissioned work from sculptor Emmanuel Okoro. [13]
The 2016 crowdfunded documentary (with "dream-reenactment sequence", "amusing artifice" [14]) film The Banksy Job is about Andy Link and the work. [15] [16] [17] [18]
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link)I haven't got a clue what this means, so I ask the Guardian's art critic, Adrian Searle. "This is the sort of thing that really, really bad wannabe artists blurt out, as a sort of verbal smokescreen," he says. "The tone is telling - wounded, aggressive, hectoring, melodramatic, apocalyptic, with feeble stabs at humour. It is a waste of my 'primary processes' to try to get to the bottom of it, if it has one. In my view, AK47 are a few seminars short of an art-theory course. In any case, loads of art deals with time, and with the fact that art is a process and a journey as much as it is about objects which can be bought and sold. And who believes all this rot about 'timelessness' any more, anyway? Maybe they were hit on the head by one of those leaky rocks."
2015/16 Commission: Collaboration film with AK47 and Daylight Robbery LTD (Recreation of Banksy drinker) now the (Stinker) (Daylight Robbery)
Andy Link Linky aka AK47 attends The Banksy Job Premiere about the day a Banksy statue was snatched from London in broad daylight, The Prince Charles Cinema, London.
The Drinker | |
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Artist | Banksy |
Year | 2004 |
Medium | Metal |
Condition | Stolen |
Location | London, United Kingdom |
51°31′00″N 0°07′35″W / 51.5167°N 0.1264°W |
The Drinker is a statue by graffiti artist Banksy, not to be confused with the stencil of the same name, a graffiti artwork of a rat drinking a cocktail, on a wall at North Beach, Lowestoft, England. [1] [2]
In 2004, the statue was placed, in a small square at Princes Circus, on Shaftesbury Avenue, between New Oxford Street and High Holborn, central London. [3] [4] It is a subversive comment using The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. [4]
In March 2004, [5] The Drinker was stolen by "art terrorist", football hooligan [6] Andy Link, a former porn star, [6] with an arrest record, [6] and a record of drug charges, [6] (also known as AK47). [7]
Around a year after Link took The Drinker, Link says he registered "the lost and found item" with police, and contacted Banksy, asking for £5,000, or an original canvas, "to cover costs". [8]
In 2007, [8] three years after Link stole it, the sculpture was taken from Link's garden, [9] while he was away. [4] [10]
In December 2015, Link re-installed, as "The Stinker", "an imitation of Banksy’s sculpture" [11] "The Drinker", modified with a toilet seat, cistern, and graffiti, in central London. [12]
"The Stinker" (2015) was a commissioned work from sculptor Emmanuel Okoro. [13]
The 2016 crowdfunded documentary (with "dream-reenactment sequence", "amusing artifice" [14]) film The Banksy Job is about Andy Link and the work. [15] [16] [17] [18]
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link)I haven't got a clue what this means, so I ask the Guardian's art critic, Adrian Searle. "This is the sort of thing that really, really bad wannabe artists blurt out, as a sort of verbal smokescreen," he says. "The tone is telling - wounded, aggressive, hectoring, melodramatic, apocalyptic, with feeble stabs at humour. It is a waste of my 'primary processes' to try to get to the bottom of it, if it has one. In my view, AK47 are a few seminars short of an art-theory course. In any case, loads of art deals with time, and with the fact that art is a process and a journey as much as it is about objects which can be bought and sold. And who believes all this rot about 'timelessness' any more, anyway? Maybe they were hit on the head by one of those leaky rocks."
2015/16 Commission: Collaboration film with AK47 and Daylight Robbery LTD (Recreation of Banksy drinker) now the (Stinker) (Daylight Robbery)
Andy Link Linky aka AK47 attends The Banksy Job Premiere about the day a Banksy statue was snatched from London in broad daylight, The Prince Charles Cinema, London.