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

JR & José Parlá: Wrinkles of the City, Havana, Cuba
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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 cityâ€™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 JosÃ© ParlÃ¡ 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 ParlÃ¡ photographed and recorded 25 senior citizens who had lived through the Cuban revolution, creating portraits which ParlÃ¡, who is of Cuban descent, interlaced with palimpsestic calligraphic writings and paintings. ParlÃ¡â€™s markings echo the distressed surfaces of the walls he inscribes, and offer commentary on the lives of Cubaâ€™s elders; together, JR and ParlÃ¡â€™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 (2004â€“2006), Face2Face (2007) and Women Are Heroes (2008). In 2011 he was awarded the TED Prize.
JosÃ© ParlÃ¡ 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).
Country USA
Brand Damiani Editore
Manufacturer Damiani/Standard Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrations
ReleaseDate 2012-10-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9788862082501

Country	USA
Brand	Damiani Editore
Manufacturer	Damiani/Standard Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Illustrations
ReleaseDate	2012-10-31
UnitCount	1
EANs	9788862082501

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

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