The Migrant Child by Banksy - Venice, Veneto, Italy
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In the not so busy tourist part of Venice there are many lovely / special things to see. It includes this mural made by the famous (but anonymous) painter Banksy
Waymark Code: WM16NWY
Location: Veneto, Italy
Date Posted: 09/06/2022
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While on holidays, we combined geocaching and waymarking. A geocache in this area brought us to this mural (
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The mural itself is a picture of a child at the side of a building. Due to the waves its feet are partly in the water. The child is painted black/white and is holding a flare (red/pink). It seems that the feet/legs part of the painting have been damaged, maybe due to the water. Furthermore the flare clouds are almost all gone (when looking at the original on the Bansky Instagram site: (
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The mural is about 1.5 meter high and 1 meter (including flare) wide.
About the Bansky and the mural:
"In Venice, Banksy has decided to depict a child with a life jacket indicating his position, holding a warning light over his head with his right hand and a fuchsia-colored signal (looking at the graffiti, however, the signal does not seem to be emitted from an artificial candle but from a branch, we note the root system below, just torn from the ground).
As usual, Banksy's graffiti dialogues with the architectural elements and the context in which it is inserted: Banksy has in fact chosen a wall overlooking the canal and then built the work above the water line thus separating with a body of water the figure of the migrant child from the spectator.
In addition, the Rio Novo is one of the busiest by taxis that with their passage constantly cause waves that lap - if they do not flood - the feet of the child, thus giving "sudden urgencies to rescue" and a total magnetic realism at work.
To finish the house on which Banksy decided to create the stencil of the migrant child has been for sale for years and presents a degraded appearance that is perhaps chosen to remind everyone of the uneasy conditions that have always caused migratory waves.
The building on which Banksy has decided to carry out his work is for sale. Given the value of Banksy on the art market at present, it will now certainly have a greater value. The buyer may decide to detach and sell the stencil but even here Banksy has played in advance realizing a work that, extracted from its original context - would probably lose much of its value."
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