"... JR still pastes things in the street; it’s just that the things have got
bigger. And the world has an expanded idea of what’s vandalism and
what’s art. JR’s canvases are now tower blocks, whole buildings, entire
streets. His scale is epic, monumental. He turned the separation wall
between Israel and Palestine into a giant gallery of faces
– Palestinians on the Israeli side, Israelis on the Palestinian side,
though no one could tell. He transformed a huge favela in Brazil into a vast artwork
in which he literally gave the town eyes, and he displayed a pregnant
refugee on the point of giving birth on half a mile of the Seine
embankment in the solidly bourgeois Ile Saint-Louis. ..."
Guardian - JR: ‘I realised I was giving people a voice' (Video)
Guardian - Can art change the world? The work of street artist JR – in pictures
JR in his Spring Street studio in New York: ‘he is pure energy’.
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