BANKSY // Sorry The Lifestyle You Ordered is Currently Out of Stock, 2012

  • Banksy’s 2012 Sorry the Lifestyle sign mocks consumer disillusionment and economic crisis.
    Banksy, Sorry The Lifestyle You Ordered is Currently Out of Stock, 2012.
    Spray-paint on found canvas on graffed board, in artist’s frame, 106.7 × 166.4 cm.
    Signed “BANKSY” lower right; signed and dated “BANKSY 12” on the reverse.
    © Banksy.
    Sorry The Lifestyle You Ordered Is Currently Out Of Stock is one of Banksy’s sharpest critiques of capitalist hypocrisy. Against a picturesque, appropriated landscape painting, complete with majestic mountains and soft skies, the artist spray-paints the now-iconic phrase in stark black stencil. The ornate gold frame, reminiscent of museum masterpieces, underscores the tension between institutionalised “high art” and the gritty, insurgent origins of street graffiti. 
     
    Channelling the tradition of Situationist détournement, Banksy’s approach recalls artists like Asger Jorn, who altered existing paintings to create new, subversive meanings. Here, Banksy defaces the idyll to highlight the contradiction between Britain’s romanticised landscapes and their exploitation by profit-driven development. 
     
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  • “All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?”

     – Banksy

    In this piece, Banksy hijacks a traditional landscape painting, stencilling the phrase “The Lifestyle You Ordered Is Currently Out Of Stock” across a serene mountain scene. The clash between the idyllic setting, ornate gold frame, and stark graffiti lettering captures Banksy’s critique of consumerism and the empty promises of capitalist culture. By defacing an image of beauty, the work confronts how commerce corrupts both nature and aspiration.
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