Banksy opened Dismaland, a decadent Disney – lanacion.com (Argentina)

A half-destroyed castle, a police van crash in the middle of a huge puddle of water, sideshows where you can not play or win prizes and boats full of poor refugees: this is Dismaland The theme park created by Banksy, which opened yesterday in Weston-super-Mare, a town in southwest England.

The people of this coastal city were the privileged ones who were released yesterday Disneyland postapocalyptic imagined by the controversial street artist. Hundreds of people queued from dawn to enter the premises where Banksy exhibits ten works and works of 58 contemporary artists such as Damien Hirst British and American Jenny Holzer. There will also be a program of 24 short films, including one of the Argentine Santiago Grasso and Patricio Plaza.

Instead of Mickey and Pluto, the Walt Disney characters that welcome visitors at Disney World in Dismaland welcome listless employees say phrases like “Nice to meet you. Now go back to bed.” In the park reigns gray and parody the great atmosphere of Disney. A twisted little mermaid emerges from a murky lake, a flock of pigeons attacking a woman sitting on a bench, and a written phrase on a poster warns. “This is not art, has the potential to be a disaster”

Set by Banksy as “not recommended for children and uncomfortable for the family theme park” in Dismaland no dolphin and sea lions trained to expect applause. There’s a killer whale (or artistic representation) jumping from a toilet to pass through a hoop. A child with slides and sandpit square is decorated with gray clouds, a sun crying and angry rainbow. And so the carousel, which at first glance looks colorful and bright, has a trap. Horses do not go up and down, but appear hung upside down

The invited artists to exhibit their works had to sign a contract confidentiality. But anyone surprised that requirement, since the Banksy keeps his identity hidden itself since it began with street graffiti in the early 1980. The theme park project was kept secret and even the residents of the town know what would be inaugurated on that property. What is more, the artist and his team had left the rumor that there a Hollywood blockbuster was filmed

Open until 27 September, Dismaland will be in the next recitals days of bands like Massive Attack. Pussy Riot and Kate Tempest. .