Wrinkles of the City

source: whudatde

Wie berichtet hält sich der französische Streetartist JR aktuell in Berlin auf. Die letzten Tage hat er zwei neue Riesen-Murals an die Wände der Hauptstadt gebracht, zu finden sind diese Pieces in der Gustav Meyer Allee 25 und in der Auguststraße. Wer in der Nähe ist und sein Fotohandy dabei hat – holla @ me! Die besten Bilder werden hier oben dann mit Link ergänzt. Mehr zum Wrinkles-in-the-City-Projekt findet Ihr hier.

“After a first piece last week, JR has been busy in Germany where he completed several new pieces on the streets of Berlin. In town for his “Wrinkles Of The City” project, the French artist new pieces are including portraits of ageing individuals who have, over the years, witnessed and experienced the transformation of Berlin.”
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source: junk-culture

French street artist JR recently completed a new mural installation in Berlin as part of his ongoing “Wrinkles Of The City” project. The stunning oversized closeup of an eye covers a clock tower located at 25 Gustav Meyer Allee, and completely transforms the building into a monumental installation overlooking the city.
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source: jr-artnet

JR owns the biggest art gallery in the world.

He exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not typical museum visitors. His work mixes Art and Act, talks about commitment, freedom, identity and limit.

After he found a camera in the Paris subway, he did a tour of European Street Art, tracking the people who communicate messages via the walls. Then, he started to work on the vertical limits, watching the people and the passage of life from the forbidden undergrounds and roofs of Paris.

In 2006, he achieved Portrait of a Generation, portraits of the suburban “thugs” that he posted, in huge formats, in the bourgeois districts of Paris. This illegal project became “official” when the Paris City Hall wrapped its building with JR’s photos.

In 2007, with Marco, he did Face 2 Face, the biggest illegal exhibition ever. JR posted huge portraits of Israelis and Palestinians face to face in eight Palestinian and Israeli cities, and on the both sides of the Security fence / Separation wall. The experts said it would be impossible. Still, he did it.

In 2008, he embarked for a long international trip for Women Are Heroes, a project in which he underlines the dignity of women who are often the targets of conflicts.

At the same time, he creates up the project The Wrinkles of the City. These actions aim to show through theirs wrinkles, the inhabitants of a city, the history and memory of a country. The artist chose the cities that have experienced changes such as Cartagena in Spain, Shanghai or Los Angeles.

In 2010, his film Women Are Heroes is presented at Cannes in competition for the Camera d’Or.

In 2011, he received the Ted Prize, which offers him the opportunity to make “A wish to change the world”. He creates InsideOut, an international participatory art project that allows people worldwide to get their picture and paste it to support an idea, a project, an action and share their experience.

JR creates “Pervasive Art” that spreads uninvited on the buildings of the slums around Paris, on the walls in the Middle-East, on the broken bridges in Africa or the favelas in Brazil. People who often live with the bare minimum discover something absolutely unnecessary. And they don’t just see it, they make it. Some elderly women become models for a day; some kids turn artists for a week. In that Art scene, there is no stage to separate the actors from the spectators.

After these local exhibitions, the images are transported to London, New York, Berlin or Amsterdam where people interpret them in the light of their own personal experience.

As he remains anonymous and doesn’t explain his huge full frame portraits of people making faces, JR leaves the space empty for an encounter between the subject/protagonist and the passer-by/interpreter.

This is what JR’s work is about. Raising questions…
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source: au-secours-jai-un-blog

Retour de l’artiste JR avec de nouvelles fresques murales réalisées à Berlin complétant ainsi son projet «Wrinkles Of The City». Ces nouveaux portraits monochromes à grande échelle représentent des personnes âgées qui ont, au fil des années, vu et vécu la transformation de la ville. A noter que JR prépare un documentaire retraçant le processus de son projet participatif «Inside Out».
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source: redonepress

JRの新作 in ベルリン!
ワタリウム美術館にて行われている、「世界はアートで変わっていく」展もまだまだ絶好調なJRの新作が、ベルリンにてお目見えになった模様です！

今作はなんと目の部分が時計になっています。
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source: thecitylovesyou

El artista JR llegó a las calles de Alemania con su proyecto “Wrinkles of the City” para el cual va a reproducir y pegar imágenes de las personas mayores que han experimentado con el paso del tiempo la transformación de Berlín y su evolución y así convertir a este gente en parte de la propia ciudad, entre lo que ya ha hecho JR destaca este gran ojo del cual se deja ver una parte del rostro que por supuesto pertenece a alguien mayor pues se ven las arrugas perfectamente.

La obra con un tamaño considerablemente grande y que se ve a lo alto de un edificio causa el efecto de que no esta viendo, de que esta vigilando la ciudad, además del detalle de encontrarse en el centro de un reloj. El ojo se suma al anciano que mira hacía abajo y el cual ocupada toda una fachada y una mano con señales de la edad, cada una de estas tres obras se caracteriza por ser enorme.