2014.5.16 - 6.15
Power Station of Art (상하이)
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| JR - The Wrinkles of the City (2007) |
JR has the largest gallery in the world.
He exhibits in total freedom, on walls around the globe attracting the attention of those who don’t usually visit museums or galleries. His work combines art and action, commitment and freedom , identity and experience.
His career started in 2001, when he found a camera in the parisian subway and decided to use to photograph those who express themselves on the surfaces of the walls, in the streets around Europe. He observed and listened to the people he met during his trip across Europe and decides to share their life stories on the public streets, undergrounds and rooftops of Paris, for everyone to see.
He created Portrait of a generation between 2004 and 2006 : in this series he pastes portraits of youngsters from the parisian suburbs and pastes them in the bourgeois areas of the capital. Doing so, he brings art to the streets and to the public. This illegal project was eventually officially recognized by the government and the portraits were exhibited in the Mairie de Paris’ walls.
In 2007, he worked with Marco on a new project, Face 2 Face, the largest illegal exhibition ever created. He pasted gigantic portraits of Israel and palestinian citizens face to face on 8 of their cities and on each side of the separation wall. When he returned to Paris, he displayed the portraits in the capital. This artistic action should be considered as a human project : « the heroes of my project are all those, on each side of the wall, who allowed me to paste their portraits on their doorsteps and on their properties. »
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