Starting tomorrow, you will be able to rent Banksy’s artwork through the art rental and sales company Curina.
Owning an original Banksy artwork can be difficult — if it does n’t cost millions of dollars , it mightself - destruct and shredjust when you exit the auction bridge pile .
Luckily , now you do n’t exactly need to be a millionaire nor an vendue expert to expose an original Banksy in your own home . The NYC - base art renting company Curina is listing aBanksy piece from the artist ’s 2003 " Turf War " exhibition , and all you need to fasten the piece is the willingness to compensate $ 6,000 a calendar month for a minimum of three months . Not on the dot cheap , but not bad as far as o.k. art goes .
you may think of Curina as an art ’s macrocosm Rent the Runway . While the company also sell artworks , it offers art fancier the chance to rent them as well . There are over 1,500 original pieces of prowess useable on the Curina website — from paintings to photo and even sculptures — and customers can choose whether to purchase or hire them . Different from other useable pieces , the Banksy graphics will not be uncommitted for purchase per the artist ’s power ’s regard .
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Starting tomorrow , customer will be able to sign up through the Curina website and rent the famous monkey windowpane from the " Turf War " expo . to begin with , the window depicting a nebulizer - painted monkey was part of a police force van , which was speculate to be ruin post - exhibition by the hands of an art corporate . In the closing , the van did n’t terminate up destroyed , and presently after it was abandoned at an industrial estate in east London . The current owner found it and , wishing to salvage it and keep it safe , kept the dangling window for nearly 20 years — until now .
" When I started Curina , I never would have stargaze we ’d have the chance to make an significant body of work by Banksy available for rent , " Mio Asatani , Curina ’s founder and CEO , say in a statement . " While the piece is quite a bit more expensive than the residuum of our artistic creation , Banksy ’s ethos of taking art off the museum and gallery walls and bringing it directly to the multitude is very much in course with our primary end of making fine artistry accessible to everyone . "
Curina will rent out the artwork on behalf of the anonymous owner , and Banksy fans wishing to hire it can do so byvisiting the Curina websiteand signing up for a chance of being selected . Selection will be on a first - come , first - serve groundwork , and customers will be open to a vetting process .
