JR's work is a combination of art and committed actions through large outdoor installations, films, photographs and videos, using the urban landscape as his canvas and his inspiration, according him on "the most biggest art gallery in the world."
2 Exhibitions
PARIS
DOHA
The artist continues to produce impactful work, following up his latest public exhibition with a special installation of his “Wrinkles of the City” series. First launched in 2008, the series is meant to visually portray the faces affected by gentrification and rapid urbanization in the world’s largest cities. JR spent two weeks in the laneways and rooftops of Istanbul, provoking residents to confront the elderly’s personal stories through singular images.
JR’s career as a photographer began when he found a camera in the Paris subway. In his first major project, in 2001 and 2002, JR toured and photographed street art around Europe. His first large-format postings began appearing on walls in Paris and Rome in 2003. His first book, Carnet de rue par JR, about street artists, appeared in 2005. His work remains anonymous and doesn't explain his work, allowing the subjects, protagonists, spectators and passers by to raise their own questions.
2 Exhibitions
PARIS
Perrotin gallery, Paris, is happy to present from March 16 to May 13, 2017 the screening of “WRINKLES of The CITY Istanbul”, a movie by Guillaume Cagniard on JR’s project. The artworks made within the project will be exhibited beside the screening.
DOHA
The exhibition in Doha - of this “Pervasive Art” is spread on uninvited buildings and slums around the world, features videos and photographies of JR’s most famous public works such as Women Are Heroes (2008), for which he pasted portraits of women from conflict zones on to street walls; Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games (2016), where the artist created giant installations of Olympic athletes leaping over buildings and diving into the sea; and The Louvre, Paris (2016), for which he covered one of the glass sides of the Louvre's pyramid with a photograph, giving the illusion that it had temporarily disappeared.
The artist continues to produce impactful work, following up his latest public exhibition with a special installation of his “Wrinkles of the City” series. First launched in 2008, the series is meant to visually portray the faces affected by gentrification and rapid urbanization in the world’s largest cities. JR spent two weeks in the laneways and rooftops of Istanbul, provoking residents to confront the elderly’s personal stories through singular images.
If I was a poet, I would speak of Istanbul
If I were a musician, my music would belong to Istanbul
If I was a painter, I would paint Istanbul
If I were a musician, my music would belong to Istanbul
If I was a painter, I would paint Istanbul
Mihail
JR’s career as a photographer began when he found a camera in the Paris subway. In his first major project, in 2001 and 2002, JR toured and photographed street art around Europe. His first large-format postings began appearing on walls in Paris and Rome in 2003. His first book, Carnet de rue par JR, about street artists, appeared in 2005. His work remains anonymous and doesn't explain his work, allowing the subjects, protagonists, spectators and passers by to raise their own questions.
