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JR
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Description
- JR
- Train Diagonale, Nairobi, Kenya
- Signed, titled, dated and numbered 3/3 on the reverse
- Cibachrome print mounted on aluminium under perspex, framed
- 124 by 187 cm, 48 7/8 by 73 5/8 in.
- Executed in 2009-2010, this work is number 3 from an edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs.
Provenance
Private Collection
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Lazarides Gallery, JR and Vhils: Eurotrash, May - July 2010
Catalogue Note
A typical teenage tagger, JR's own legend has it that he found a camera while out on the graffiti trail in the Paris Metro. His first of many projects took place close to home. Beginning in 2004, Portrait of a Generation took as its subject the people of the suburbs and pasted their large format portraits in the richest areas of the city.
In 2007, JR travelled to Palestine, inviting Israeli settlers to pose with their Palestinian counterparts in similar jobs. The series called Face 2 Face was displayed in eight Palestinian and Israeli cities and on the West Bank Barrier. The project was followed by Women are Heroes, aiming to highlight the dignity and strength of the women living in conflict zones, and The Wrinkles of the City, focused on showing the history of countries that experienced radical changes through portraits of their oldest inhabitants.
In 2011 JR was awarded with the Ted Prize, which offered him the opportunity to create Inside Out, an international participatory art project that allows people worldwide to make their own street art in support of their ideas and in relation to their experiences.
More recent is The Unframed Ellis Island project seeking to commemorate the stories of millions of immigrants who entered the United States.
In 2014 JR was invited by the New York City Ballet to create a large-scale art installation in collaboration with the company dancers for their 2014 Art Series. Following the success of these installations, JR launched Les Bosquets in collaboration with the same ballet company making his debut as a choreographer. Following from there, JR produced a unique photographic series of the Opéra de Paris ballet dancers shot on the roof of the Paris Opera house.
In 2007, JR travelled to Palestine, inviting Israeli settlers to pose with their Palestinian counterparts in similar jobs. The series called Face 2 Face was displayed in eight Palestinian and Israeli cities and on the West Bank Barrier. The project was followed by Women are Heroes, aiming to highlight the dignity and strength of the women living in conflict zones, and The Wrinkles of the City, focused on showing the history of countries that experienced radical changes through portraits of their oldest inhabitants.
In 2011 JR was awarded with the Ted Prize, which offered him the opportunity to create Inside Out, an international participatory art project that allows people worldwide to make their own street art in support of their ideas and in relation to their experiences.
More recent is The Unframed Ellis Island project seeking to commemorate the stories of millions of immigrants who entered the United States.
In 2014 JR was invited by the New York City Ballet to create a large-scale art installation in collaboration with the company dancers for their 2014 Art Series. Following the success of these installations, JR launched Les Bosquets in collaboration with the same ballet company making his debut as a choreographer. Following from there, JR produced a unique photographic series of the Opéra de Paris ballet dancers shot on the roof of the Paris Opera house.