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Banksy / InstagramBanksy’s newest piece of graffiti artwork, revealed to the world on Thursday, has now been traced to a road in Marseille.
Pictures posted on the elusive artist‘s Instagram depict a lighthouse stencilled on a colorless, beige wall, together with the phrases: “I need to be what you noticed in me.”
A false shadow seems to have been drawn on the pavement from a close-by bollard, giving the phantasm that the lighthouse is itself a silhouette of the mundane road furnishings.
Its location was initially a thriller, however BBC Confirm has confirmed it as Rue Félix Fregier within the southern French metropolis.
A picture of the artwork circulating on-line reveals a blurred individual driving a scooter in entrance of the piece, with a graffiti tag seemingly studying “Yaze” additional alongside the wall.
The tag matches that utilized by a Canadian graffiti artist Marco The Polo, whose Instagram account options pictures of his personal work however who has known as Banksy an inspiration.
GoogleBanksy has stored his true identification a secret all through his profession, and it’s only by the Instagram account that works are recognized as real.
Usually imbuing his works with a political message, his earlier items have alluded to immigration, the conflict in Ukraine and homelessness, amongst different issues.
The which means of a few of his works, although, is much less clear – similar to his motivation behind the sequence of animals painted in varied places throughout London final summer time.
Previous to the lighthouse, in December, Banksy posted a bit depicting a Madonna and little one, with a fixture within the wall showing like a bullet wound in her chest.
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