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Entry Posted March 3, 2008

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2260941,00.html In 2001 the Swiss ambassador to London invited graffiti artists to decorate the underground carpark of the Swiss Embassy, one of whom turned out to be Banksy. 13:44

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… still in shadows!! 最近のニュース面よりUnderground art: how Banksy gave Swiss embassy an image makeover Mark Brown, arts correspondent Guardian, Friday February 29 2008Switzerland's ambassador knew his country had an image problem. It was in the headlines for the wrong reasons, with the banks being accused of hanging on to Nazi gold, and he wanted to do something positive. So Bruno Spinner invited some young …

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… Banksy è protagonista di un’altra notizia che riporta ilThe Guardian. Nel corso del 2001 l’ambasciatore Bruno Spinner incaricò alcuni artisti di strada di ridisegnare il garage dell’ambasciata svizzera a Londra, per modernizzare l’immagine pubblica del paese. Tra questi anche l …

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… War II. Spinner recruited a group of graffiti artists to create new works in the Swiss embassy car park as a sort of image makeover, and the artists were permitted to have a rave. The Guardian today reveals that one of the little-known artists was theprovocateur Banksy …

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