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Bart Steenhaut at the latest Banksy. – © If
On Friday morning, Flemish music journalist Bart Steenhaut was one of the very first work by street artist Banksy in the French city of Marseille. « By stupid, » he admits. « Although I am a big fan. Our vacation cannot go wrong now. »
It has been quiet around Banksy since December last year, but on Thursday the world -famous street artist gave another sign of life. He unveiled His latest creation In his way – and also just about the only way to know that it is really one of his works: by sharing a photo of it on his Instagram page.
We were shown a lighthouse, as an apparent shadow of a street pole, with the words’I want to what you saw in me‘(I want to be what you saw in me, ed.). However, what Banksy did not mention was where exactly the work was. A new mystery around the equally mysterious artist and the start of a global search.
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Bruce Springsteen
Online Speurneuzen suggested after a while that the lighthouse would be in Marseille, which turned out to be correct. The work was located on Friday morning in the Rue Félix Fegier and Flemish music journalist Bart Steenhaut was one of the first. « By stupid, you know, » he says. « My girlfriend and I were already in Marseille, for Bruce Springsteen, who performs here tomorrow. This morning I suddenly received a message from a friend from Belgium, who sent me that the new Banksy would be here. We had already booked a bike tour through the city. As soon as we had learned the right street through the Belgian media, we could take a little bit of our guide. »
When they arrived on the spot, there were also journalists from the French newspapers Le Figaro and Libération. « They had only heard it. They also interviewed us immediately, so we must have been one of the very first. »
“Too good to be true”
Steenhaut has been a big fan of Banksy for years and has seen several works by the artist in real life in the past. « But this, immediately after the unveiling, being able to see the work is nice. A ‘Once in a lifetime’ experience. Too good to be true. »
And yet Steenhaut secretly hopes for a little more. « It is typical of Banksy to announce new works in series, with periods in which he reveals a new work almost every day. It would be nice to wake up again tomorrow and read that he made another one in another neighborhood in Marseille. But even if that is not the case, our vacation has already been successful. »
