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He lives and works in Paris and New York, consciously keeping his true identity a secret. He places his black and white photographs all over the world as monumental posters on house walls, stairs and walls. In addition to the architecture of cities, cultural and contemporary historical contexts are always the subject of his works, whose emotional significance is expressed in the faces of the people JR photographs in close-up. Based on this idea, the artist has already realized major projects in Europe, America, Africa and Asia.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JR&#8217;s main motivation is interaction with others. In his works he poses the question of freedom and identity and to what extent art can change the perception of people and their surroundings. But with his actions he also draws attention to grievances. Characteristic for JRs art are the stories he tells with his collages and his talent to bring together separate worlds. JR is a creator of relationships, a conductor who gives a face to anonymous existences or unrecognized and forgotten stories. For his ambitious visions to change the world, JR will receive the American TED Prize in 2011, which has already been awarded to Bill Clinton. My art does not change the world; but I hope it inspires people to change the way they look at the world and at people, says JR.       <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda is curated by Patricia Kamp in close collaboration with JR. In photographs and videos by the artist, she presents both early and ongoing projects, thus opening up a retrospective view of his work and its development up to the present day.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IT ALL BEGAN WITH A FOUND CAMERA <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JR begins his career as a sprayer. As a teenager he finds a camera in the Paris subway and begins to document his forays over roofs and in tunnels of Paris. In 2004 JR realized his first big project PORTRAIT OF A GENERATION. After riots in the Parisian suburbs, he posted his photos of grimacing youths in these very suburbs and in bourgeois areas of Paris. The images provoke passers-by by questioning the media&#8217;s portrayal of this generation. After the first posters are hastily removed by the city sanitation department, the city administration soon legalizes the project and proposes to JR to use public spaces near the city hall.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition at the Museum Frieder Burda also presents the project FACE 2 FACE. In 2007, Israelis and Palestinians with the same professions &#8211; for example, teachers, shopkeepers, sculptors &#8211; appeared in the Middle East in front of JR&#8217;s lens, laughing with tears, screaming or making faces. He posters the huge photos on house walls in the settlements on both sides of the border and even on the border installations themselves. The message is unmistakable: On the basis of their facial features, the enemy population groups cannot be distinguished.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For WOMEN ARE HEROES, JR 2008 dares to go to the Favela Morro da Provid\u00eancia in Rio de Janeiro, with a bold plan in his head. He wants to meet the inhabitants there and give a face to those who otherwise have to remain anonymous: the women of the favela. They are the first victims of drug-related crime, the weakest members of society, and yet their pillar. He covers the huts of the quarter with wall-high posters, black-and-white photos of eyes and faces, close-ups of the women. The project WOMEN ARE HEROES, about which he is also shooting a film of the same name, takes JR further to Kenya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, India and Cambodia.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JR focuses on the older generation in the project THE WRINKLES OF THE CITY. They have experienced the great transformations of their city in the 20th century and yet remain largely unnoticed in the cityscape. After stops in Cartagena, Los Angeles, Havana and Shanghai, the project will take him to Berlin in early 2013. There, he will question the old people about their memories and place the photos of people scarred by life on the walls formed by history. The impressive faces and the folds of the people portrayed stand for the eventful history after the Second World War until the fall of the Wall.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">INSIDE OUT &#8211; ANYONE CAN PARTICIPATE <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JR will mit so vielen Menschen wie m\u00f6glich \u00bbdas Innerste nach au\u00dfen kehren\u00ab und w\u00fcnscht sich, dass jeder \u00f6ffentlich f\u00fcr das einsteht, was ihm wichtig ist. Bereits \u00fcber 200.000 Personen nahmen mit ihren Portr\u00e4ts am Projekt INSIDE OUT teil. JR gelingt es 2013 \u2013 als erstem K\u00fcnstler \u00fcberhaupt \u2013 den Times Square im Herzen New Yorks mit Portr\u00e4ts zu bekleben. Sein Mittel zum Zweck sind immer Fotos: Portr\u00e4ts, die in mobilen Fotokabinen gemacht oder \u00fcber die Internetseite des Projekts eingeschickt werden und anschlie\u00dfend von den Portr\u00e4tierten selbst in den \u00f6ffentlichen Raum gebracht werden. JR ist Drucker geworden. Schnell wird aus der Idee ein politisches Ausdrucksmittel: In Tunesien \u00fcberkleben die Menschen Portr\u00e4ts des Diktators mit ihrem eigenen Bild; in Pakistan weisen Minderheiten mit INSIDE OUT-Bildern auf ihre Verfolgung hin; in der Arktis prangt ein riesiges Auge und macht auf den Raubbau an einem der letzten intakten \u00d6kosysteme der Erde aufmerksam; in den USA bekleben die Lakota-Indianer ihre Zelte mit Fotos und in Berlin demonstrieren junge Russen gegen die Homophobie in ihrem Land.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Auch im Museum Frieder Burda k\u00f6nnen sich die Besucher in einer Fotokabine portr\u00e4tieren lassen und bei diesem gr\u00f6\u00dften je dagewesenen Kunstprojekt mitmachen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UNFRAMED \u2013 KUNST GEHT IN DIE STADT <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marseille, Bordeaux, Washington, S\u00e3o Paulo, Grottaglie in S\u00fcditalien \u2013 mit dem Projekt UNFRAMED (\u00bbungerahmt\u00ab) ist JR seit 2009 weit gereist. Zum ersten Mal in seiner Karriere plakatiert er nicht eigene Fotos, sondern Werke bekannter oder unbekannter Fotografen. Die Ausstellung zeigt Projektaufnahmen aus Vevey von 2010 und aus Marseille, der europ\u00e4ischen Kulturhauptstadt 2013. JR besucht hier Bewohner des Arbeiterviertels Belle de Mai, w\u00e4hlt Hunderte von Fotos aus ihren Fotoalben aus und plakatiert anschlie\u00dfend ein gutes Dutzend davon im Viertel zwischen Hafen und Hauptbahnhof: Schnappsch\u00fcsse aus der Zeit der Volksfrontregierung, alte Klassenfotos, Bilder von Matrosen, Ausfl\u00fcglern und Pendlern \u2013 sie alle werden aus der Anonymit\u00e4t befreit und entfalten im Stadtraum neue Dimensionen.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Im Rahmen der Werkschau im Museum Frieder Burda kommt UNFRAMED auch nach Baden-Baden. UNFRAMED BADEN-BADEN befasst sich als gro\u00dfes Projekt im Baden-Badener Stadtraum mit der deutsch-franz\u00f6sischen Geschichte und Freundschaft. In der Altstadt von Baden-Baden bringt JR mit der Plakatierung von historischen Aufnahmen aus privaten Fotoalben und dem Stadtarchiv das Thema in einen neuen Kontext. Dazu wurden Baden-Badener B\u00fcrger im Vorfeld zum Mitmachen und Einreichen pers\u00f6nlichen Materials eingeladen. Seit jeher ist Baden-Baden ein Scharnier zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich, hier l\u00e4sst sich die z\u00f6gerliche Ann\u00e4herung der beiden L\u00e4nder nach jahrzehntelanger Erbfeindschaft mit H\u00e4nden greifen.    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French artist JR (*1983) is one of the most innovative representatives of international contemporary art. He lives and works in Paris and New York, consciously keeping his true identity a secret. He places his black and white photographs all over the world as monumental posters on house walls, stairs and walls. 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