The wrinkles of the city: Havana Cuba. Ediz. illustrata: JR & José Parlà (Arte contemporanea) - Hardcover

JR; Parlá, José

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ISBN 10: 8862082509 ISBN 13: 9788862082501

Verlag: Damiani, 2012

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Book by Astiasarn Clara Batet Janet

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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 Jose Parla 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 Parla photographed and recorded 25 senior citizens who had lived through the Cuban revolution, creating portraits which Parla, who is of Cuban descent, interlaced with palimpsestic calligraphic writings and paintings. Parla's markings echo the distressed surfaces of the walls he inscribes, and offer commentary on the lives of Cuba's elders; together, JR and Parla'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. Jose Parla 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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The Wrinkles of the City project first started when JR visited the city of Cartagena, Spain. JR photographed its oldest inhabitants who are taken as the memory incarnate of the city, marked by the scars of its history, economic expansion and socio-cultural mutations. While meeting and photographing the elderly, JR imaged their wrinkles, as the marks of time, the traces of their lives that are linked with the history of the city. Wrinkles of the City takes on a new addition in Havana, Cuba as JR invites Jose Parla to collaborate by photographing and documenting the elderly of Havana to create murals together in a mixture of collage and. JR is the name of a french photographer and artist whose identity is unconfirmed. He has been introduced by the journalist Fabrice Bousteau as: "the one we already call the Cartier-Bresson of the 21st century". On 20 October 2010, JR won the TED Prize for 2011. The TED Prize is awarded annually to an exceptional individual who receives $100,000 and, much more important, 'One Wish to Change the World". He exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not typical museum visitors.

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• Verlag: Damiani
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 8862082509
• ISBN 13: 9788862082501
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160