I don't think this is a genuine Bansky, but who knows, maybe he takes his holidays on the Canary Islands where this picture was taken the other day (and emailed to me). Obviously its based on the popular Che Guevara image, which must be one of the world's ultimate iconic graphics. Except he seems to have a monkey face and his revolutionary star has migrated off his beret into the sky.
Its got more than a bit of a rough and ready feel to it and the agricultural render is very typical of the traditional hillside buildings out there, much different to our smooth, stencil friendly public surfaces. I can't help thinking that maybe there is a connection with the banana plantations that dominate much of the surface area of this archipelago. Or perhaps its something to do with the long running Independence Movement that is evidenced in other graffiti in the Canaries in protest against the genocidal Spanish conquest...with a dash of Planet of the Apes thrown in. Maybe someone out there knows exactly what this is, but I like it's bold enigma and slightly defiant gaze.
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