Mr. Brainwash Announces Solo Show to Take Place During Art Basel Miami
24 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Mr. Brainwash will be unveiling his solo show, Untitled, at Art Basel 2011 where he will be taking over an… Read More
Thierry Guetta, best known by his moniker Mr. Brainwash, is a French-born Los Angeles-based street artist. According to the 2010 Banksy-directed film Exit Through the Gift Shop, Guetta was a proprietor of a used clothing store, and amateur videographer who was first introduced to street art by his cousin, the street artist Invader, and who filmed street artists through the 2000s and became an artist in his own right in a matter of weeks after an off-hand suggestion from Banksy.
A number of critics have observed that his works strongly emulate the styles and concepts of Banksy, and have speculated that Guetta is an elaborate prank staged by Banksy, who may have created the works himself. Banksy insists on his official website, however, that Exit Through the Gift Shop is authentic and that Guetta is not part of a prank.
His work sold for five-figure sums at his self-financed debut exhibit Life Is Beautiful, due, it is thought, to a mixture of an overheated and hyped street art market and his endorsements from Banksy and Fairey. The exhibit was held in Los Angeles, California, on June 18, 2008, and was a popular success. In 2009, Madonna paid Guetta to design the cover art for her Celebration album.
24 November 2011 • Mark Westall
Mr. Brainwash will be unveiling his solo show, Untitled, at Art Basel 2011 where he will be taking over an… Read More
5 October 2011 • Mark Westall
ANASTASSIOS-Mr. BRAINWASH ” Mr Brainwash “Opera Gallery presents the UK premier of new works by Mr Brainwash in an exhibition curated by Jean-David MALAT….
27 May 2011 • Mark Westall
Mr. Brainwash has been busy in Hollywood, with two big pieces on the corner of La Brea and Santa Monica…. Read More
17 December 2010 • Mark Westall
All good fun and you would like to think Warhol would say something like ‘gee, wow, kinda cool.’
21 June 2010 • Mark Westall
TrustoCorp is the latest to engage the highly-controversial Mr. Brainwash aka Thierry Guetta in a series of art attacks. Known… Read More
8 July 2009 • Mark Westall
Now through July 23, artnet Auctions is presenting a special online auction of Urban Art from 1972-Present. The sale traces… Read More