PHOTOS – Banksy passing through Calais and Jungle – MetroNews

It is invisible but its graffes mark the spirits. Banksy, the street artist who never shows his face, left on Saturday and three works in Calais Jungle. At the entrance of the makeshift camp in which migrants survive 4500, he represented the creator Apple Steeve Jobs, a backpack on his shoulder and a computer hand. The painting was done on a tower of the ring road to the port of Calais.

In a statement, Banksy said he had represented the American entrepreneur because of his Syrian origins. “We often makes us believe that immigration is a loss to the resources of a country but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian immigrant. Apple is the company that clears the most benefits, and who pays more than seven billion of tax dollars, but this has been the case only because a man came from Homs was able to enter [the United States], “he said.

A new raft of the Medusa

In the center of the town of Pas-de-Calais, Banksy bulging black and white version of ‘Raft of the Medusa’. As in the famous painting by Géricault in the early nineteenth century, shipwrecked and dead bodies pile up on some boards ready to sink. But instead of the ship Argus, who had rescued the few survivors of the tragic sinking of the “Medusa”, appears on the horizon a ferry as those who perform daily routes between Dover and Calais, inaccessible transportation for migrants.

The latest achievement, made on an aid station to the beach at Calais, is a little boy flying hair and a suitcase at his feet. The child looks with a telescope toward the coasts of England. A bird that looks like a vulture landed on it. While the works of Banksy may be worth several hundred thousand euros, the municipality decided to protect it by covering it with a piece of wood before putting it under plexiglass. Meanwhile, it can be seen on the artist’s website.

It was a faith Dismaland

This is not the first time the artist seizes the issue of migrants. End of August in the park of ephemeral and nightmarish attractions, Dismaland, Banksy had already made a sculpture of refugees in a boat. During the dismantling of its facilities, he said that the reusable materials would be sent to help migrants who cram into the Jungle.

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