Building Bridges Through (Street) - Art- AMAZING !

Please take some time to check out this extremely incredible artist, JR and his series of amazing work around the World. From Paris to Ramallah, from Rio to Delhi, from Shanghai to Monrovia, truly inspiring and radically different. Not by co-incidence this Artist has been chosen the TED2011 Prize Winner.

JR owns the biggest art gallery in the world. He exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not the museum visitors. His work mixes Art and Act, talks about commitment, freedom, identity and limit. After he found a camera in the Paris subway, he did a tour of European Street Art, tracking the people who communicate messages via the walls. Then, he started to work on the vertical limits, watching the people and the passage of life from the forbidden undergrounds and roofs of the capital.

In 2006, he achieved Portrait of a generation, portraits of the suburban "thugs" that he posted, in huge formats, in the bourgeois districts of Paris. This illegal project became "official" when the Paris City Hall wrapped its building with JR's photos. In 2007, with Marco, he did Face 2 Face, the biggest illegal photo exhibition ever. JR posted huge portraits of Israelis and Palestinians face to face in eight Palestinian and Israeli cities, and on the both sides of the Security fence / Separation wall. The experts said it would be impossible. Still, he did it.

In 2008, he embarked for a long international trip for "Women", a project in which he underlines the dignity of women who are often the targets of conflicts. Of course, it didn't change the world, but sometimes a single laugher in an unexpected place makes you dream that it could. JR creates "Pervasive Art" that spreads uninvited on the buildings of the slums around Paris, on the walls in the Middle-East, on the broken bridges in Africa or the favelas in Brazil. People who often live with the bare minimum discover something absolutely unnecessary. And they don't just see it, they make it. Some elderly women become models for a day; some kids turn artists for a week. In that Art scene, there is no stage to separate the actors from the spectators. After these local exhibitions, the images are transported to London, New York, Berlin or Amsterdam where people interpret them in the light of their own personal experience. As he remains anonymous and doesn't explain his huge full frame portraits of people making faces, JR leaves the space empty for an encounter between the subject/protagonist and the passer-by/interpreter. This is what JR is working on. Raising questions...


JR´s TED 2011 SPEECH :

More on JR to be found @ his website : http://www.jr-art.net/

Everbody interested in buying stuff, pls. visit my bro Selim`s Shop @ http://www.artempus.de/

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MEDICOM TOY EXHIBITION ’10 Recap

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Although the MEDICOM TOY EXHIBITION ’10 took place at the start of the summer, traditionally imagery of the event has bad hard to come by due to a strict no photography policy. However, an extensive look has surfaced, highlighting many of MEDICOM TOY’s most recent and upcoming releases. While some toys have hit retailers, there are some unseen previews that have made its way into the imagery. Highlights from the event include various BEARBRICKS which include a Charlie Brown pack, the RAH (Real Action Hero) collection, and a handful of Star Wars-based KUBRICKS and RAH figures.

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May Day ! An exhibition by Shepard Fairey...

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Deitch Projects is pleased to present May Day, an exhibition of new work by Shepard Fairey, as its final project. Titled not only in reference to the day of the exhibition’s opening, the multiple meanings of May Day resonate throughout the artist’s new body of work. Originally a celebration of spring and the rebirth it represents, May Day is also observed in many countries as International Worker’s Day or Labor Day, a day of political demonstrations and celebrations coordinated by unions and socialist groups. “Mayday” is also the distress signal used by pilots, police and firefighters in times of emergency.

With energy and urgency befitting the title May Day, Fairey captures the radical spirit of each of his subjects, using portraiture to celebrate some of the artists, musicians and political activists he most admires. Says Fairey, “These people I’m portraying were all revolutionary, in one sense or another. They started out on the margins of culture and ended up changing the mainstream. When we celebrate big steps that were made in the past, it reminds us that big steps can be made in the future.”