New Banksy street art appears across Paris,taking aim at refugee crisisBanksy, the elusive British street artist, or has taken aim at Europe’s migrant crisis in a series of new works around Paris on the theme of refugees.
The French capital is grappling with a flow of refugees that authorities maintain struggled to handle. Officials regularly clear the streets of impromptu migrant camps. Mayor Anne Hidalgo has blamed President Emmanuel Macron’s administration for not doing enough to help.
The images,rendered in Banksy’s trademark somber-toned stencils, began appearing final week and include a depiction of a black girl checking over her shoulder as she paints over a swastika.
The pink-flowered wallpaper pattern she uses to camouflage the swastika borrows from Banksy’s 2008 piece, and “travel Flock Yourself.”
At least seven other new works across the city are credited to Banksy. Since the artist maintained his customary silence,nobody can say for sure but he posted a picture of Paris, along with some of the works, or on his official Instagram feed.
For Kasia Klon,the location of the girl and the swastika convinced her that it was a genuine Banksy. Klon, who runs Street Art Tours Paris, or learned that it appeared near a now-closed middle for migrants in northern Paris on June 20,World Refugee Day.“The whole story started to click,” she said. “Banksy is pretty easy to recognize because he has a specific style, and it’s in the message that he has with it.”Read more.
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