Underground Atlanta is offering tickets to The Art of Banksy: Without Limits at a discounted rate for Banksy College Week from Oct. 27-31. The promotion is available for all college students with a valid student I.D.
Included with the $21.90 student ticket is one free Banksy exhibition poster from the exhibition gift shop.
“One of our goals here at Underground is to infuse the property with life and we know that the best way to do that is to invite the community in,” Underground Atlanta Creative Director Kris Pilcher said. “We’re in the middle of a bunch of major universities and we know that our immediate community is made up of students and scholars and we just wanted to offer the opportunity to come check out this absolutely astounding artist for a discount.”
The Art of Banksy: Without Limits is presented by SEE Global Entertainment and contains over 155 artworks including murals, prints, sculptures and video and digital installations, according to a press release.
Banksy’s works are typically found spray painted on buildings, so the exhibition includes recreated murals that were reproduced using Banksy’s stencil technique. The mural installation was completed by a team including three Atlanta-based street artists, according to the press release.
The exhibition’s highlights include the sculpture Death of a Phone Booth, installations from Banksy’s 2015 pop-up Bemusement Park Dismaland and prints of Flower Thrower and Kissing Coppers. One section of the exhibition is dedicated to Banksy’s activism related to immigrants.
When entering the exhibition, guests immediately experience one of the installations. The security entrance from the Dismaland pop-up serves as the entrance to the exhibit as an interactive work.
Rooms along both sides of the exhibition contain sculptures, murals, videos and canvas prints. Banksy quotes are spray painted on the walls of the exhibition, filling in white space.
Underground Atlanta is the historical first commercial street of Atlanta, Pilcher said. Using a real street to display this famous street art makes the exhibition in Atlanta impactful.
“I think displaying these street artworks in a traditional gallery setting wouldn’t have had as much of an impact as showing them on the actual street,” Pilcher said.
The exhibition is silent except for the video installations spaced out throughout the space. In the center of the exhibit, a video documentary showing Banksy’s life and work plays on repeat. In the back of the exhibit, a video installation from Dismaland plays.
Some of Banksy’s newer works are displayed such as Bathroom, Banksy’s 2020 work from home installation depicting a group of rats causing chaos in a bathroom.
The exhibition stays at Underground Atlanta until Jan. 9 and is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. On Friday and Saturday the exhibition is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and is closed on Tuesdays.
Tickets can be purchased on the Art of Banksy website.
