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MR BRAINWASH: BANKSY'S STREET-ART PROTÉGÉ AND HIS LATEST BRAINWAVE
2012-08-06

INDEPENDENT (UK) The master of hype arrives in London for a blockbuster new show. Matilda Battersby meets him Mr Brainwash first came to the world’s attention as the star of Banksy’s Oscar-nominated documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop. The film was so extraordinary it was met with a storm of hoax accusations. It followed the then Thierry Guetta, a perfectly ordinary (well, ordinary-ish) French-born owner of a vintage clothes shop in Los Angeles, who had an obsessive hobby for filming things. With a camcorder permanently attached to his face and no need for sleep, Guetta began turning his lens on other nocturnal creatures: street artists.Read Source here




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