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Jr - Jr: Chronicles - Hardcover
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Description: A comprehensive overview on the French artist who has transformed cities worldwide with his epic portraits of their inhabitants Over the past two decades French artist JR has massively expanded the impact of public art through his ambitious projects that give visibility and agency to people around the world. Showcasing the full scope of the artist's career JR: Chronicles accompanies the first major exhibition in North America of works by the French - born artist. Working at the intersections of photography social engagement and street art JR collaborates with communities by taking individual portraits reproducing them at a monumental scale and wheat pasting them sometimes illegally in nearby public spaces. This superbly produced volume traces JR's career from his early documentation of graffiti artists as a teenager in Paris to his large - scale architectural interventions in cities worldwide to his more recent digitally collaged murals that create collective portraits of diverse publics. The centerpiece of the accompanying exhibition is The Chronicles of New York City a new epic mural of more than 1,000 New Yorkers. Also included are previously unseen murals set in Brooklyn; Face 2 Face diptychs of Israelis and Palestinians in Palestinian and Israeli cities; Women Are Heroes featuring images of the eyes of women gazing back at their communities in numerous countries; The Gun Chronicles: A Story of America JR's complex work on guns in America; and other equally famous works. JR (born 1983) is best known for his monumental wheat - pasted street portraiture projects. JR has carried out projects across the globe. He has shown in museums worldwide and has created site specific works for the Louvre the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the Centre Pompidou.
Title: Jr: Chronicles
Author(s): Jr
Publisher: Clementine De La Feronniere
Barcode: 9782954226699
Pages: 240 Pages, 130 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 11/19/2019
Category: Exhibition Catalogues & Specific Collections
Description: A comprehensive overview on the French artist who has transformed cities worldwide with his epic portraits of their inhabitants Over the past two decades French artist JR has massively expanded the impact of public art through his ambitious projects that give visibility and agency to people around the world. Showcasing the full scope of the artist's career JR: Chronicles accompanies the first major exhibition in North America of works by the French - born artist. Working at the intersections of photography social engagement and street art JR collaborates with communities by taking individual portraits reproducing them at a monumental scale and wheat pasting them sometimes illegally in nearby public spaces. This superbly produced volume traces JR's career from his early documentation of graffiti artists as a teenager in Paris to his large - scale architectural interventions in cities worldwide to his more recent digitally collaged murals that create collective portraits of diverse publics. The centerpiece of the accompanying exhibition is The Chronicles of New York City a new epic mural of more than 1,000 New Yorkers. Also included are previously unseen murals set in Brooklyn; Face 2 Face diptychs of Israelis and Palestinians in Palestinian and Israeli cities; Women Are Heroes featuring images of the eyes of women gazing back at their communities in numerous countries; The Gun Chronicles: A Story of America JR's complex work on guns in America; and other equally famous works. JR (born 1983) is best known for his monumental wheat - pasted street portraiture projects. JR has carried out projects across the globe. He has shown in museums worldwide and has created site specific works for the Louvre the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the Centre Pompidou.
Title: Jr: Chronicles
Author(s): Jr
Publisher: Clementine De La Feronniere
Barcode: 9782954226699
Pages: 240 Pages, 130 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 11/19/2019
Category: Exhibition Catalogues & Specific Collections
