JR (artist)

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JR ( [? e ??] ; born February 22, 1983) is a pseudonym of a French photographer and artist whose identity which has not been confirmed. Describing himself as a photographer, he aired large black and white photographs in public locations, in a manner similar to the use of an environment built by graffiti artists. He stated that the streets are "the largest art gallery in the world". He started on the streets of Paris. JR's work "often challenges the widely held prejudices and the reductive images advertised and the media."

JR's work combines art and action, and deals with commitment, freedom, identity, and boundaries. He was introduced by Fabrice Bousteau as: "what we call Cartier-Bresson the 21st century". On October 20, 2010, JR won the TED Prize for 2011. He used the $ 100,000 prize money to start the Inside Out Project .

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Life and career

JR began his career as a teenage graffiti artist who, by his own admission, was not interested in changing the world, but in making a mark in the public sphere and society. His graffiti efforts often target crucial places like roofs and subways, and he enjoys adventure going to and painting in these spaces. After finding a camera in Metro Paris, JR and his friends began documenting his graffiti painting action. At the age of 17, he began to apply photocopies of these photographs to the outside wall.

JR then travels throughout Europe to meet other people whose artistic modes involve the use of outer walls. Then, he began to wonder about the vertical boundaries, walls and façade that formed the cities. After observing the people he met and listening to their messages, JR put their portraits on the streets and dungeons and on the roofs of Paris.

Between 2004 and 2006, JR created Portrait of Generation , portraits of young people from residential projects around Paris are on display in large format. This illegal project became official when the City of Paris put JR photos in buildings. At the beginning of his project, JR wanted to bring the artwork to the streets: "On the way, we reach people who never go to museums."

In 2007, with Marco, JR posted large Israeli and Palestinian photographs face-to-face in eight Palestinian and Israeli cities on both sides of the Separation Barrier. Upon returning to Paris, he put these portraits in the capital. For artists, this artistic act is the first and main human project: "The project heroes are those who, on both sides of the wall, allow me to attach portraits in their homes."

In 2008, JR toured internationally for Women Are Heroes, a project in which he highlighted the dignity of women who were frequently targeted during the conflict.

On October 20, 2010, JR won the TED Prize for 2011. He used the $ 100,000 prize money to start the Inside Out Project , a global art initiative that has enabled thousands of people around the world to talk to their communities through portrait pasted in public space. This prize brought him and his work to New York City where he opened another studio, and inspired places in the area as was done in 2011 from members of the Native American Lakota of North Dakota.

In 2013, he continues to work in New York City, with the Inside Out Project in Times Square, which challenges advertising with massive works of art consisting of thousands of portraits of locals and tourists alike.

In January 2014, JR collaborated with New York City Ballet for their second annual Art Series program, exhibiting works at the theater at Lincoln Center, including an interactive section on the balcony floor. This collaboration led JR to explore the artistic medium of choreography in another project with ballet months later. In March 2014, JR made installation with 4,000 faces at and at the Pantheon in Paris. In August 2014, JR was invited to work at the abandoned hospital on Ellis Island, an important chapter in immigration history.

In 2015, he directed the short film ELLIS, starring Robert De Niro. The film, stationed in the abandoned Ellis Island Hospital compound and using the UNFRAMED JR art installation, tells the forgotten story of immigrants who built America.

In 2016, JR was invited by the Louvre and made the famous pyramid disappear through a surprising anamorphosis. That year, he also worked in Rio de Janeiro during the 2016 Olympics and created a new giant sculpture installation using scaffolding, on a city scale, placing an emphasis on the beauty of athletic movement. His latest projects include a museum exhibition dedicated to children at Center Pompidou, a permanent collaboration with Brazilian artist Os Gemeos at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, in a space used to store stolen pianos during World War II, gigantic installations in the US. The Mexican border fence, and a film with AgnÃÆ'¨s Varda, directed along with Nouvelle Vague icons, toured France to meet people and discuss their vision. The movie, 'Visages Villages', was nominated for an Oscar in 2018, for Best Documentary.

JR calls himself an "urban builder", he creates the pervasive art that he sets up in buildings in Paris-area projects, on the Middle East wall, on broken bridges of Africa or in Brazilian fauna. During the grazing phase, community members take part in the artistic process. In Brazil, for example, children become artists for a week. In this artistic action, there is no scene separating the actors from the audience.

After being exhibited in the cities where the JR subjects came, photos of the journey from New York to Berlin, Amsterdam to Paris Because JR remained anonymous and did not frame its massive portrait, it left room for confluence between subject/protagonist and pedestrian/translator, and this is the essence of his work.

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Critical reception

In 2010, during a radio program in San Diego, California, artist Shepard Fairey stated: "JR is the most ambitious street artist working." Le Monde describes his work as "expressing humanity." With nearly a million followers of Instagram, he is one of the most popular artists in social media.

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Work

28 Millimeters

JR thinks of itself as "not a street artist or photographer". To carry out his project, he uses photography but also videos, prints on paper or tarpaulins, urban space, books, and especially social links. JR noted, "I want to bring art to places that are impossible, create such a big project with people so they have to ask themselves questions I want to try to make a picture of hot spots like the Middle East or Brazil offer different points of view from what we see in media around the world that are often caricatures. "

Generation Portrait

The Portraits of Generation Project is the first phase of the project 28 mm . After the first unauthorized exhibition on the walls of the CitÃÆ'  © des Bosquets residence, JR returned and arranged this and adjacent residential project, Cità © à © de la ForestiÃÆ'¨re, both in the epicenter of the 2005 riots in the French suburbs. The first portraits were quickly displayed on the walls of the last settlement in the capital, east of Paris. These photos provoke pedestrians in as much as they question the social and media representation of an entire generation that for some people is only visible delegated to the outskirts of the capital.

Face2Face

The Face2Face project tries to show that beyond what separates them, Israelis and Palestinians are similar enough to understand each other. Israeli and Palestinian men and women who have the same job are welcome to laugh or cry, shout or draw face in front of JR lenses. Portraits made are taped face-to-face, in monumental formats on both sides of the Wall Separator and in some surrounding cities. JR photographed and Marco wrote, together managed to create the world's largest illegal urban art exhibition ( la plus grande exposition d'art urbain au monde ). The goal of the project is to show through images that combined art and laughter can break prejudices.

The Faces Movie, directed by Gerard Maximin, about artistic endeavors conducted in the Middle East by JR and Marco has won many prizes.

Women are Heroes

For this project, JR slips into fantasic places, seen on TV when there is violence, which observers may approach but never enter and will not be found on a tour guide tour. Women are heroes Introducing women who sometimes see death on the face, who turn from laughter to tears, are generous, have nothing and have not shared, who have a painful and long past to build up a period happy front. In looking for what is common in their view, JR tries to get closer to what is universal: human. This project enabled him to keep the promise he made to these women: faire voyager leur histoire (to make their story journey). Women are Heroes have traveled to locations including Sierra Leone, Liberia, Kenya, Brazil, India, and Cambodia. In 2014, JR created one final project for Women Are Heroes with a harbor worker in Le Havre, France. Imaging a woman's eyes from a previous trip in Kenya, JR and her team completed the biggest patch to date on shipping containers which were then stacked on the world travel barge to Malaysia. Thus, he eventually took the story of women all over the world.

Wrinkles City

The Los Surcos de la Ciudad project ( Wrinkles City ) is based on a meeting between JR, the city of Cartagena, Spain, and the oldest inhabitants taken as the embodiment of city memory , characterized by its historical traces, economic expansion and socio-cultural mutations. While meeting and photographing the elderly, JR imaged their wrinkles, their eyebrow eyebrows, as a sign of time, the trail of their lives associated with the city's history.

For JR, these older people are the living memory of a city that changes faster than their own age. For him, every wrinkle they had and every passing day was etched in the buildings and on the streets of old Cartagena that provided the JR with a heterogeneous architecture.

By 2015, City Wrinkles projects have reached Shanghai, China, Los Angeles, California, Havana, Cuba, Berlin, Germany and Istanbul, Turkey.

Inside Out Project

The Inside Out Project is a large-scale, participatory art project that transforms personal identity messages into artistic pieces in the form of portraits of black and white photographs. The images are digitally uploaded and made into posters and sent back to fellow project creators for display in their own community. More than 150,000 people from more than 108 countries have participated.

In 2013, the project made a massive exhibition in Times Square in Manhattan that challenged ads with art created from thousands of portraits of locals and tourists. Attempts to involve New Yorkers in five districts after Hurricane Sandy were completed using one of Inboo's Inside Out Project trucks. This method made by JR resulted in a more direct connection of his work to the streets through direct interaction with the people and people. Photobooth trucks have traveled the world for a variety of different causes, including national tours that bring attention to immigration reform in America, and a 10-stop trip to major monuments in France ends with a grand installation at the Pantheon in Paris.

Framed

Framed is an ongoing project started in 2010, realized using images by well-known or anonymous photographers, and archived images interpreted and retrieved by JR from the context depending on the place, environment, or city where he works In works such as those made in May 2013 in Marseille, France, JR unearthed the environmental identity of la Belle de Mai, and invited its inhabitants to think about their memory of the streets by looking into their private photo albums. Photographs, old or new, cut or enlarged, create monumental artwork on the facade of the environment and change personal footprints and much of what is part of the city's history and collective memory. JR has exhibited the work of Unframed in Cincinnati, Marseille, Atlanta, Washington DC, Baden Baden, Grottaglie, Vevey, and Sao Paulo.

In 2014, JR resumed its Unframed project on Ellis Island, using photos from when the island operated as an entry point for millions of immigrants to America. These archive images were attached to the abandoned facade and the walls of the hospital on the grounds that once had been sick and dying.

NYCBallet

In 2014, JR collaborated with New York City Ballet for their second annual Art Series program. JR exhibited artwork at the Lincoln Center theaters David H. Koch in January and February, including a large installation of interactive pieces on the promenade floor. This work follows his model of engagement with his fans and the public across social cleavages, connecting ballet patrons to first-time participants with a ballerina-sized image on the ground.

This Art Series resulted in a further collaboration between the artist and the New York City Ballet, a few months later he explored the medium of new choreographic art. JR worked with the company's ballet master on Peter Martins's head to create a work entitled Les Bosquets based on its beginnings during the 2005 riots on the outskirts of Paris. For this project, the dancers became his paper and his work was changed to the stage.

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Featured movie

JR diverted his Women Are Heroes project to the cinema in directing a film consisting of pictures of the installation phase and the interview of women. Through this documentary, the artist shows us how he puts portraits of women in the town spaces and the reactions of his inhabitants. He explained "the film collects the images and words of the women he meets, the flow of life and their daily experiences to create, through art, a reality different from what is shown in the media".

This first film is part of the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. The program is programmed for La Semaine de la Critique (International Critique Week), and competes for CamÃÆ'Â © ra d 'Or. In May 2010, JR was invited to present his film at Le Grand Journal on Canal at Cannes during the festival.

The second film JR, Inside Out: The People's Art Project, is a documentary that tracks the evolution of the world's largest participatory art project, Inside Out. JR inspired the community to determine their most important cause by showing giant black and white portraits embedded in the streets. The project encourages citizens to take ownership of previously restricted walls and thus test the limits of what they think may be. This is a production of the Social Animals that collaborate with Notting Hill Film, directed by Alastair Siddons.

The film is featured as an official Official Documentary Feature selection at the Tribeca Film Festival 2013, aired at the SVA Theater on West 23rd Street, on Saturday, April 20 and debuted on HBO in May 2013.

In 2015, JR created the film Les Bosquets inspired by unrest in the French suburbs in 2005 and featured the balloons performance of Les Bosquets of New York City Ballet (2014).
That same year, he directed a short film titled Ellis , starring Robert De Niro.

In 2017, JR collaboration with filmmaker AgnÃÆ'¨s Varda, Visages Villages , was released for great praise. It has won or been nominated for a number of top honors, including "Golden Eyes" for best documentary at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival (win) and the "Best Documentary Features" of 2017 from the American Academy of Sciences and Arts (nominated).

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Exhibition

2007

• Paris - Artcurial.
• Venice Biennale, Arsenal.
• Amsterdam - Foam Photographyemuseum Amsterdam.
• Arles, France - Rencontres d'Arles.
• Berlin - Artitud.

2008

• London - Tate Modern.
• Cartagena, Spain.
• Geneva - Musà © Ã… © e Rath.
• Brussels, Belgium.

2009

• Paris, France, Ile Saint-Louis - Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Mairie du 4e arr.
• Arles, France - Rencontres d'Arles.
• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Casa FranÃÆ'§a Brasil.

2010

• Shanghai, China - Contemporary Biennal Art.
• Shanghai, China - Magda Danysz Gallery - Wrinkles City
• Vevey, Switzerland - ElysÃÆ' Â © e Museum - Picture of the Festival.
• San Diego, CA - San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art.
• Los Angeles, CA - Pop up Gallery, Downtown.
• DÃÆ'¼sseldorf, Germany - Springmann Gallery.
• Cannes Film Festival - Projection Women Are Heroes (May 18).

2011

• Miami, FL - Art Basel, Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, "Wall and Papers".
• Paris, France - Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, "Encrages".
• The JR movie, Women Are Heroes was released in theaters.
• Paris - Pompidou Exhibition Center and Inside Out Project Installing Photobooth.
• Los Angeles, CA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles - Art In The Streets.
• Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - "Emirati Expressions".
• Arles, France - Rencontres d'Arles - exhibitions and night shows (ThÃÆ' Â © ÃÆ' Â ¢ Â ¢ Arles Antiques).

2012

• Vevey, Switzerland - Festival Pictures.
• Hong Kong, China - Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery.

2013

• Tokyo, Japan - The Watari-Um Museum.
• Berlin, Germany - Springmann Gallery.
• Marseille, France - Friche La Belle de Mai.
• New York, New York - Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Wrinkles City: Havana, Cuba with JosÃÆ'Â Â © ParlÃÆ'¡.
• New York, New York - Inside Out Project installation and Photobooth in Times Square.
• Cincinnati, OH - Center for Contemporary Art

2014

• Baden Baden, Germany - Museum Frieder Burda.
• Paris - Au PanthÃÆ'Â © in! Installation by JR from collecting 2,500 self-portraits/photographs collected during March 2014 with photo truck travels in France and the world, shown for his artwork at the newly restored Pantheon in Paris, France; a secular temple in Paris where the famous is buried.
• Dallas - Dallas Contemporary.
• Shanghai - Magda Danysz Gallery.
• Shanghai - Power Station of Art.

2015

• Hong Kong - HOCA: Inside Out Project , JR: survey exhibition.
• Hong Kong - Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin.
• Boston, MA - translucent attachment on the glass of John Hancock Tower, from floor 44 to 50
• Malaga, Spain - CAC.
• Paris - Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin.
• Lille, France - Tri Postal.
• Toronto - Nuit Blanche.
• London - Lazarides
• Tokyo - Museum Watari-Um.

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• Paris - Center Pompidou.
• Paris - Louvre. From May 25 to June 27, JR transformed the Louvre Pyramid using one of his anamorphic images. When viewed from the right angle, the Pyramid seems to disappear.

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Awards

On October 20, 2010, JR won the TED Prize for 2011.

Prizes associated with Gerard Maximin's Face movie on JR and Marco's Face2Face project:

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Publications

iPad app

• 2013: free app including photos and videos of all JR international projects, with interactive features.

Books

• Carnet de Rue , Free Edition Presse, 2004.
• Generation Portrait , Alternative Edition, 2005.
• Faces 2 Face , Alternative Edition, 2007.
• JR/28 Millimeter, a journey through the 28 mm JR projects,
Editions Lazarides Gallery, London, 2008.
• JR , Pyramyd Edition, 2009.
• Women are Heroes by JR , Alternate Edition, 2009.
• "Wrinkles City: Shanghai", Drago, 2011.
• "Woman is a Hero", Harry N. Abrams, 2012.
• "Wrinkles City: Los Angeles" by JR and Louise Berrebi, Drago, 2012. ibook version released 2013
• "JR & amp; JosÃÆ'Â © ParlÃÆ'¡: Wrinkles City, Havana, Cuba" Damiani/Standard Press; Bilingual edition, 2013.
• "JR: Can Art Change the World?", Phaidon Press, 2015.
• "JR: Inside Out", Rizzoli, 2017.

Books with contributions by JR

• Outsiders, Art by People. Century, 2008. Compiled by Steve Lazarides.
• Qu'est ce que la photographie. Paris: Beaux Arts/TTM, 2009.
• 60 Innovators Forming Our Creative Future. London: Thames & amp; Hudson, 2009.
• Beyond the Street, 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art. Gestalten, 2010.
• Instaphotographers 2014. JÃÆ' Â © rÃÆ' Â © Leclerc I, 2014.

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See also

• The Standing March (2015)

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References

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External links

• Official website
• Official project site for 28 millimÃÆ'¨tres
• Women Are Heroes Official site for this movie.
• JR in TED
• Galerie Lazarides JR Profile
• Galerie Springmann, Dusseldorf
• Galerie Magda Danysz, ShanghaÃÆ'¯
• "The Lithographies" (works by JR) on the Social Animals site
• Le Blog Libation
• "JR street art" The Guardian , March 7, 2010.
• "JR: The coolest street artist since Banksy" The Times , February 15, 2009.
• In your face for peace! - LensCulture , July 7, 2007.
• "JR uses images to challenge stereotypes" The Washington Post , October 23, 2006.

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