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JR

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JR: Déplacé·e·s

SKIRA
Edited by Arturo Galansino. Interview by Arturo Galansino, Stéphane Malfettes.

JR’s latest collaborative public installations highlight the worldwide child refugee crisis

Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 115 color. | 9/26/2023 | In stock
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JR: The Wound

MARSILIO EDITORI
Edited with interview by Arturo Galansino.

French “photograffeur” JR’s tribute to cultural institutions during COVID-19

Hbk, 11.75 x 11.75 in. / 48 pgs / 30 color. | 9/28/2021 | In stock
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JR: Chronicles

MAISON CF/BROOKLYN MUSEUM
Introduction by Anne Pasternak. Text by Drew Sawyer, Sharon Matt Atkins.

A comprehensive overview on the French artist who has transformed cities worldwide with his epic portraits of their inhabitants

Hbk, 7 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / 90 color / 40 bw. | 11/19/2019 | In stock
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JR: Giants / JR JO

ACTES SUD
Text by Thierry Consigny. Interview by Jean de Loisy, Vik Muniz, Thomas Bach.

Moumental installations at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, from French photocollagist, JR

Hbk, 8.75 x 13.5 in. / 256 pgs / 400 color. | 5/21/2019 | In stock
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JR & José Parlá: Wrinkles of the City, Havana, Cuba

DAMIANI/STANDARD PRESS
Text by Clara Astiasarán, Janet Batet, Michael Betancourt, Jeffrey Deitch.

JR and José Parlá’s street celebration of Cuba’s elders

Hbk, 11.75 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 10/31/2012 | Out of stock
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JR: Déplacé·e·sJR: Déplacé·e·s

Published by SKIRA.
Edited by Arturo Galansino. Interview by Arturo Galansino, Stéphane Malfettes.

JR (born 1983) is considered one of the most important street artists of the last 20 years, famous throughout the world for his projects combining photography, public art and social politics. The plight of migrants and refugees has long been part of JR’s concerns. For the Déplacé·e·s project, launched in 2022, he traveled to crisis zones ranging from war-torn Ukraine to the refugee camps of Mugombwa in Rwanda, Mbera in Mauritania, Cucuta in Colombia and Lesvos in Greece, drawing attention to the harsh conditions in which thousands of people find themselves today. By enlarging their portraits on huge banners, JR gives back an identity to those who are deprived of it. Published on the occasion of an exhibition in Turin gathering these portraits for the first time, Déplacé·e·s features a previously unpublished interview with JR by Arturo Galansino and Stéphane Malfettes.



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Catalog: FALL 2023 p. 108   

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JR: The WoundJR: The Wound

Published by Marsilio Editori.
Edited with interview by Arturo Galansino.

Throughout the pandemic, cultural institutions have been forced to shut their doors to the public. Palazzo Strozzi in Florence has commissioned street artist JR (born 1983) to address this unfortunate reality. He has done so by transforming the facade of the Palazzo into a towering photographic collage installation that functions like an anamorphosis: when viewed from a particular vantage point, the distorted image reveals a courtyard, exhibition hall and library.
In this volume, JR offers the public a look inside that which, for now, is inaccessible. The Wound (La Ferita) is a poignant reflection on the wound endured by cultural institutions during the pandemic. The book includes a conversation between the artist and curator Arturo Galansino, in which they delve into the genesis and realization of this singular piece.



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Catalog: FALL 2021 p. 129   

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JR: ChroniclesJR: Chronicles

Published by Maison CF/Brooklyn Museum.
Introduction by Anne Pasternak. Text by Drew Sawyer, Sharon Matt Atkins.

Over the past two decades, French artist JR has massively expanded the impact of public art through his ambitious projects that give visibility and agency to people around the world. Showcasing the full scope of the artist's career, JR: Chronicles accompanies the first major exhibition in North America of works by the French-born artist. Working at the intersections of photography, social engagement and street art, JR collaborates with communities by taking individual portraits, reproducing them at a monumental scale and wheat pasting them—sometimes illegally—in nearby public spaces.

This superbly produced volume traces JR's career from his early documentation of graffiti artists as a teenager in Paris to his large-scale architectural interventions in cities worldwide, to his more recent digitally collaged murals that create collective portraits of diverse publics. The centerpiece of the accompanying exhibition is The Chronicles of New York City, a new epic mural of more than 1,000 New Yorkers. Also included are previously unseen murals set in Brooklyn; Face 2 Face, diptychs of Israelis and Palestinians in Palestinian and Israeli cities; Women Are Heroes, featuring images of the eyes of women gazing back at their communities in numerous countries; The Gun Chronicles: A Story of America, JR's complex work on guns in America; and other equally famous works.

JR (born 1983) is best known for his monumental, wheat-pasted street portraiture projects. JR has carried out projects across the globe. He has shown in museums worldwide and has created site specific works for the Louvre, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the Centre Pompidou.



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Catalog: SPRING 2020 p. 6   

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JR: Giants / JR JOJR: Giants / JR JO

Published by Actes Sud.
Text by Thierry Consigny. Interview by Jean de Loisy, Vik Muniz, Thomas Bach.

The photocollages of French artist JR (born 1983) have populated streets and skylines all over the world. But he decided to outdo himself at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio by creating what he called "his craziest work ever": the Giants series. Perched on scaffolding, gigantic athletes leaped over abandoned buildings and swan-dived into the ocean. And, while his Giants were on show, the "Inside/Out" photo booth was zapping out supersized prints of enthusiastic games-goers.

This volume explores the history of JR's work in Brazil, beginning in 2008 with his work in Rio's favelas and continuing today at the Casa Amarela, a culture and education center for kids. Focusing particularly on the Giants series, the book offers insights into how the artist transforms places and spaces by focusing on the daily lives of their inhabitants.



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Catalog: FALL 2018 p. 155   

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JR & Art Spiegelman: The Ghosts of Ellis IslandJR & Art Spiegelman: The Ghosts of Ellis Island

Published by Damiani.

In August 2014 the French artist JR received an unprecedented invitation to work in the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, a building on the south side of the island that has been abandoned and closed to visitors since 1954. About ten percent of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island, having been deemed not healthy enough to enter the United States, spent some time in the hospital. For Unframed—Ellis Island, documented in The Ghosts of Ellis Island, JR chose about 20 archival photographs of the hospital's patients and staff and wheat-pasted these images around the abandoned building, creating haunting scenes that bring the history of these rooms back to life: a family looking out at the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, a small boy lying on an empty bed frame, patients staring out of the caged "psychopathic" ward. The work, which is accessible by guided tour, will remain up "until it decides to disappear." Along with images of JR's photographic interventions in the hospital, this publication includes new illustrations by legendary cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who collaborated with JR on illustrated narratives about Ellis Island's immigrants.
JR (born 1983) is best known for his monumental, wheat-pasted street portraiture projects. His ongoing project Unframed involves installing archival images and images from anonymous photographers in new contexts. JR has carried out Unframed projects in Marseille, São Paulo, Vevey, Atlanta, Baden Baden and Washington, DC. In 2014 he worked inside the theater of the NYC Ballet creating a 6,500-square-foot composite image of NYCB dancers depicted nearly life-size that, when seen from above, forms a giant eye. JR won the TED Prize for 2011.
Art Spiegelman (born 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor and comics advocate based in New York City, best known for his graphic novel Maus (1991). His work as coeditor on the comics magazines Arcade and Raw has been influential, and he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker where he made several high-profile and sometimes controversial covers.

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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 63   

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JR & José Parlá: Wrinkles of the City, Havana, CubaJR & José Parlá: Wrinkles of the City, Havana, Cuba

Published by Damiani/Standard Press.
Text by Clara Astiasarán, Janet Batet, Michael Betancourt, Jeffrey Deitch.

Since 2004, the French artist JR has traveled the world flyposting colossal black-and-white portraits of ordinary citizens on the walls of city buildings. His most recent project, The Wrinkles of the City, began in Cartagena, Spain, where he photographed the city’s oldest inhabitants, imagining their wrinkles as metaphors of urban texture and history. He has subsequently reprised the project in Shanghai, China and Los Angeles. In May 2012, JR collaborates with American artist José Parlá on the latest iteration of The Wrinkles of the City: a huge mural installation in Havana, undertaken for the Havana Biennale, for which JR and Parlá photographed and recorded 25 senior citizens who had lived through the Cuban revolution, creating portraits which Parlá, who is of Cuban descent, interlaced with palimpsestic calligraphic writings and paintings. Parlá’s markings echo the distressed surfaces of the walls he inscribes, and offer commentary on the lives of Cuba’s elders; together, JR and Parlá’s murals marvelously animate a city whose walls are otherwise adorned only by images of its leaders. This volume features the portraits, short biographies of their subjects and photographs of their mural collaborations painted around Havana. A film documenting the project appears in 2013.

Based in Paris, JR exhibits freely in public sites in the cities around world. His projects include Portraits of a Generation (2004–2006), Face2Face (2007) and Women Are Heroes (2008). In 2011 he was awarded the TED Prize.

José Parlá studied painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, and the New World School of the arts in Miami, and lives and works in Brooklyn, new York. a recent project is a special commission for the Brooklyn Academy of Music. His most recent monograph is Walls, Diaries and Paintings (Hatje Cantz, 2011).

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Catalog: FALL 2012 p. 11   

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