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JR Street art is impressive, but outdated.
The grooves of the city, the young Frenchman fotoinstalación JR papered monuments, installations, objects and walls in the port city of Cartagena and disappeared, but has been documented in the catalog that the festival La Mar de Músicas been published for the installation French artist who made last year on the occasion of France Special.
The book includes a major artistic interventions that have been made in the city, and who have most impressed the inhabitants.
The catalog has a dvd where you see the process of completing the project.
JR owns the largest art gallery in the world, the streets.
Its exhibits are set freely in the cities, picking up the attention of all those who do not come to museums.
His work blends art and action, talk about beauty, freedom, identity and limit.
He is identified as artivista mixture of artist and activist.
He became known in Paris, thanks to your project 28 millimeters, portrait of a generation, which exposed illegal caricatured portraits of youth in the banlieue (suburbs sensitive) in the quiet streets within the walls of Paris.
With some impertinence, causing the passer and question the social and media representation of this generation.
Their project that became world renowned was Face to Face, where he photographed Palestinians and Israelis in the same profession and with his portraits plastered the wall / safety barrier.
I wanted them to realize they are more alike than they think.
He came to Cartagena with a new project, after papering the front of the Tate Modern in the UK.
In the port city developed the story of the city, its people and the facades of it.
Since this project was offered and sought information from Cartagena, everything went back to history, the city's past.
Speaking at several buildings in the city was papered with people of very old, very marked by the passage of years, people with stories, is that as JR himself said: "It is talking to the grandfathers and grandmothers I do understand guide as they are Cartagena, which is through them or rather on them like you should read here.
The history of this city since the middle of the decade of the 30 are merged with their lives as a fisherman, a soldier, a peasant.
Her hairstyle, the way they talk or look reveals that lived, that succession of victories and defeats, fears and hopes. "
For the artist-drawn grooves life in the face of these grandparents are confused with the marks left by the time the walls of buildings.
I learned that parallel lines never cross.
But I wanted those story lines were crossed.
And my grandparents.
Wanted to participate in this exhibition bear witness to this merger.
They wanted to be great on the walls and slowly growing old, attached to them, leaving a soft image. "
Source: Mar de Musicas
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