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On the occasion of the fourteenth edition of the festival La Mar de Músicas, the French artist JR has papered walls and neighborhoods of Cartagena with photographs of older people in the project called "The grooves of the city ', a creation produced and designed especially for Cartagena festival.
In "The grooves of the city 'is given the tradition and history of an ancient city and its inhabitants with the marks of the passage of time are the faces of the city and the facades of its characters.
In every line of its inhabitants and in every crevice of the buildings has been printed daily life, dreams and illusions of a population and a city.
Buildings like the Palace Hall, the Civil War refugees, the Centro Cultural Ramón Alonso Luzzy or boat building in Calle Concepción, are just some examples of street art that the city will have to go slowly discovering , different neighborhoods and surrounding areas.
As explained José Luis Cegarra, there was a casting of three days to select the characters that have since been portrayed by the facades of the city.
With all these pictures, make a book with the history of each of the persons involved in the project.
The artist will also deliver the image to each of the players involved.
JR highlighted that the facades and walls can read the story of a city.
In fact, in the boat building Conception Street can still see a key hanging.
So, the artist is particularly interested in the project cartagenero the constrained between modern and ancient architecture, and the passage of time in buildings and people.
With 25 years, JR is the owner of the largest gallery in the world: the streets.
Its exhibits are set freely in the cities for eight years, gathering the attention of all those who do not come to museums.
He became known in Paris, thanks to your project 28 millimeters, portrait of a generation, who exposed illegal (like all his work) caricatured portraits of young people from the periphery in the quiet streets of Paris, but his most recognized was Face to Face, where he photographed Palestinians and Israelis in their profession and their pictures plastered the wall of separation.
A Cartagena wallpaper comes after the facade of the Tate Modern in the UK.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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