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JR - an anonymous artist, who does not explain why he paints huge portraits of people with different facial expressions. He stops at the lone passers-by, and makes their photos in their interpretation. JR creates a “pervasive art”, which applies to ordinary-looking buildings around the slums of Paris, on the walls in the Middle East, on a broken bridge in Africa or the slums of Brazil. People who mostly live in poverty, become participants in his portraits, that is, they not only saw the elusive JR, but worked with him.


He asked about the meaning of the initials. The answer remained a mystery. JR was awarded the annual award TED Prize in 2011. The prize is awarded for “extraordinary person” who changed the world. Genie TED grant given to those who live just a mere desire - to change the world - and also get for this $ 100.000. Some elderly women have become models for a single day, and some children - artists for the week. In the art scene, there is no individual participants or spectators. JR owns the biggest art gallery in the world. Its exhibits are free housed in the streets of the world, attracting the attention of even those people who do not visit museums. His work - a blend of art and law, she talks about commitment, individual liberty and that the aisle is not perfect.

Scene Festival Massive Attack, Paris

Portrait of JR.

Portrait of a generation. Byron, La Forestiere Ghetto, Clichy-sous-Bois (93, France). 2006

Street art - a portrait of generation. Byron, La Forestiere Ghetto, Clichy-sous-Bois (93, France). 2006. Insert in the 20 th arrondissement of Paris.

Women - the heroine Favela “Morro da Providencia”, Rio de Janeiro. August 2008.

Women - the heroine Favela “Morro da Providencia”, Rio de Janeiro. August 2008.

Women - the heroine. Staircase at the entrance of Rio Favela “Morro da Providencia”. August 2008.

Women - the heroine. Staircase at the entrance of Rio Favela “Morro da Providencia”. August 2008.

Face to Face “on the dividing wall - the security fence in Jerusalem. March 2007.

“Street art - Face to Face” on the dividing wall - the security fence in Jerusalem. March 2007

Trein art (the art of painting on the trains) - women - heroines in the slums of Kibera - Kenya. January 2009.

JR took as a basis for its creation - 2000 square meters of roofs of buildings located close to each other in Kibera. Women - the heroine in the slums of Kibera - Kenya. January 2009.

18 months after the start of work - 2000 square meters of new roofs are covered. Women - the heroine in the slums of Kibera - Kenya. January 2009.

Street art - Cartagena, Spain.

Street art - Cartagena, Spain.

Cartagena, Spain, Museum of refugees - Los Surcos de la Ciudad project.

Culturel - Center, Cartagena, Spain.

Wrinkles city, Shanghai in 2010, work was presented on Saturday, October 23, 2024 at the Shanghai Art Museum for the Biennale, and Sunday 24 October 2024 Gallery “Cat Magda Danysz in Shanghai.

Street Art - Wrinkles of the city, Shanghai, 2010.

Street Art - Wrinkles of the city, Shanghai, 2010.

Street Art - Wrinkles of the city, Shanghai.

Street Art - Wrinkles of the city, Shanghai.

Self-portrait - JR.