Grin Reaper, 2005

Time, Death, and the Illusion of a Smile   ‘Guaranteed to tell the time at least twice a day. That’s twice.’ Few images in Banksy’s oeuvre capture the tension between inevitability and denial as precisely as Grin Reaper. By merging the figure of death with the language of mass-produced happiness, the artist constructs a work … Continue reading Grin Reaper, 2005