BANKSY // UFO, 2006

  • Banksy’s UFO (2006) blurs traditional landscapes with sci-fi absurdity in a surreal and subversive landscape. Painted in oil on canvas...
    Banksy, UFO, 2006.
    Oil on canvas in artist’s frame and oil on aluminium, 141 × 141 cm. Unique.
    Signed and dated “Aug 2006” on the reverse.
    © Banksy.
    Banksy’s UFO (2006) blurs traditional landscapes with sci-fi absurdity in a surreal and subversive landscape. Painted in oil on canvas with additional oil on aluminium, the work depicts a classic countryside scene interrupted by four hovering flying saucers. Each UFO beams down a lime green light, piercing the idyllic view with unnatural precision.
     
    Banksy uses this bizarre pairing to critique both cultural escapism and the absurdity of power. The green beams can be read as metaphors for modern surveillance, media intrusion, or even colonisation from a new kind of empire. As always, Banksy’s humour is laced with unease, suggesting that what we take as familiar is never safe from disruption. UFO is a unique work that blurs the line between the classical and the conspiratorial - an alien encounter staged on a very English canvas.

     

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  • “The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules.”

    – Banksy

    Created in 2006, UFO is executed in oil on canvas with additional oil on aluminium. The painting presents a traditional countryside landscape interrupted by four flying saucers, each casting lime-green beams of light onto the ground below. The jarring combination of familiar pastoral imagery with science-fiction intruders exemplifies Banksy’s satirical approach to tradition, disruption, and paranoia.
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