Screenprint in limited edition of 500 works in all the world. The work belongs to the Barely Legal Prints set and is provided with the certificate of authenticity issued by Pest Control. 57x77cm
Destroy Capitalism, 2007
Banksy’s Festival, also known as Destroy Capitalism is a color screen print on paper, edition 55/500 of 2007. Banksy’s Destroy Capitalism belongs to the Barely Legal Prints set that was first shown in 2006 at the Barely Legal Show in Los Angeles.
This Destroy Capitalism artwork is unsigned and replicated in 500 exemplars. The works of the Barely Legal set are sold all together.
What is Banksy ‘Destroy Capitalism’ Meaning?
Among the people in the queue Banksy represents hippies, punks, freegans and left-wing university students.
This typical revolutionary and anti-capitalist people are queuing up to buy a T-shirt because they share the slogan “Destroy Capitalism”.
The irony of this scene is that the slogan “Destroy Capitalism” has been carefully studied and marketed, addressing even the cluster of consumers who supposedly criticize capitalism but who at the same time, are part of the consumerist culture.
Everything has a price in the Western world. This scene represents how even the people who detach themselves from consumerist culture end up becoming victims of their own principles.
