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| “I would like to bring art to improbable places, create projects so huge with the community that they are forced to ask themselves questions.” – JR, Beaux Arts Magazine photo courtesy: paperstreetsupplies.com |
JR adalah perupa street art berasal dari Perancis yang mungkin "paling edan" saat ini di seluruh penjuru jagad. Ia dengan ciri khas ala seniman jalanan menghindari nama asli dan identitas diri dari publisitas. JR penerima penghargaan TED prize, karena ulah karya seninya.
Memaksa
para juri takjub dan menyerahkan hadiah 1 juta dollar padanya karena proyek di
daerah kumuh dan miskin, wilayah bekas perang/ revolusi rakyat, distrik rawan
kekerasan di negara-negara berkembang dari Kenya sampai Tunisia.
JR menciptakan
seni secara bersama, menggerakkan warga lokal dan membuat bangga atas identitas
wilayahnya dengan foto-foto diri mereka (masyarakat sekitar lokasi karya
tersebut), berupa poster-poster ukuran raksasa paste up.
JR is a
street artist from France. In the unique manner of street artists, he gave up
his real name and conceals his identity from publicity. He received TED Prize
thanks to his artistic ‘mischief’.
He ‘forced’ the judges to be awed and to
reward him with a 1 million dollar prize for his projects in slums, former war
zones/centers of people’s revolution and JR created arts collectively. He empowers
local people and makes them proud of their community identity by turning their
self-portraits into giant paste up posters.
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