The wrinkles of the city. Los Angeles. Ediz. illustrata - Rilegato

JR; L. Berrebi

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 8888493905 ISBN 13: 9788888493909

Casa editrice: Drago (Roma), 2012

Riassunto

Continua la marcia trionfale di JR nel mondo. Nello sforzo di creare un modo nuovo per collegare la Strada al Sistema, JR utilizza ancora una volta il suo metodo personale per cambiare il mondo. Dopo The Wrinkles of the City – Shanghai arriva il secondo capitolo con The Wrinkles of the City – Los Angeles. Per la prima volta nel cuore dell’America, nella Città degli Angeli, il tocco inconfondibile di JR destabilizza la mecca dei giovani e l’ambasciata non-ufficiale della cultura americana conquistando le strade, portando speranza e amore per una nuova era. Dopo il successo strabiliante del primo volume, ecco questo “table book” da collezione con la sua raccolta di immagini create da un Artista che resterà nella storia della fotografia e dell’arte contemporanea.

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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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• Editore: Drago (Roma)
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 8888493905
• ISBN 13: 9788888493909
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 140