Screenprint in limited edition in 500 works in all the world. The work belongs to the Barely Legal set and is provided with the certificate of authenticity issued by Pest Control. 57x77cm
Trolley Hunters, 2007
This Artwork by Banksy Trolley Hunters is a serigraph on paper, edition 55/500 of 2007. Trolley Hunters, also known as Trolleys belongs to the Barely Legal set that was first shown in 2006 at the Barely Legal Show in Los Angeles.
There are 500 exemplars of Barely Legal Edition, unsigned and black and white. The works of the Barely Legal set are sold all together.
Trolley Hunters, also known as Trolley, is a black and white Banksy’s print, in which the only colored element is red the handlebar of the trolleys.
The image presents a particular and ridiculous hunting scene: three primitive, armed men are pointing their spears towards a herd of shopping carts in a field.
In the first editions, the men held a sort of hammer, then Banksy replaced it with a spear.
The satire is sharp: the target of primitive man isn’t a buffalo or a mammoth, but shopping carts.
Banksy turns these trolleys into symbols of consumerism to which man is primitively enslaved.
Trolley Hunters comments upon the stupidity of humans, which according to Banksy have an innate tendency to foolishness since they were able to stand on two feet.
The idiocy and absurdity of the human race is such that these hunters spend unnecessary energy by hunting something that is empty.
