In line with the restoration of the Palais Garnier, the Opéra National de Paris invited the artist JR to decorate the over-30-meter scaffolding that currently overs the facade. Two installations evoking Plato’s cave allegory were developed: Act I – L
Ever since the day he came across a camera in the Paris metropolitan raiway, JR – pseudonym of the street artist Jean René – has taken photographs in black and white and enlarged them to stick on walls of buildings for all to see, in a quest to make
In his latest optical illusion, the street artist JR has ripped open the top of one of the Great Pyramids of Giza in Cairo, Egypt. The work is part of a trail of large-scale sculptures and installations by ten contemporary artists. The exhibition For
In October 2019, French artist JR created a one-of-a-kind art activation within the walls of California Correctional Institution: Tehachapi in Southern California - a maximum security 4 facility. JR and his team captured the portraits and stories of
