Post pobrano z: The world’s biggest gallery | JR, Evol, SAM3, Vhils
JR: Making social commentary arresting, beautiful and impressive is no mean feat. But France’s JR does just that, across a global canvas. His huge images are usually pasted onto the walls and roofs of buildings. This project showcasing female inhabitants of a Kenyan slum helped win the 2011 TED prize. Judges praised him for 'turning the world inside out’
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JR: continues his global street art installation, “28MM: WOMEN” campaign with a new residency in Delhi, India. He checks in with us from the ancient city this week with a sneek peek at his latest handiwork. Fresh off an epic run of installations in Cambodia and Kenya, JR will no doubt have claimed all of Delhi as his personal outdoor art gallery by the time this new stage of his grand global plan is complete.
JR: Wrinkles of a City in Paris
Evol: German artist Evol uses stencils to create miniature lifelike buildings from small pieces of urban furniture. Here, he has drawn tiny balconies and satellite dishes onto the side of an electrical box to turn it into a tiny skyscraper. His work is so precise that, when you’re glancing at photographs, it can often be hard to tell that you’re not looking at pictures of real buildings.
SAM3 reverse silhouette in Cartagena: This is a very cool piece of work by SAM3. It stands out firstly because it’s enormous, and secondly because it’s a reverse silhouette: the texture of the wall becomes like her skin. A few days later the building was torn down. It takes incredible vision to produce work on this scale.
Vhils face: The powerful portraits produced by Vhils are made via subtraction rather than addition. This is a typical piece: a vast face chiselled from plaster on the side of a wall in his native Lisbon. He also etches with acid, and makes striking images by peeling billboards.
Evol: This cityscape was created by EVOL inside a deserted factory in Dresden in 2009. The concrete structures he decorated to produce the elaborate work are 'probably the former foundation of a huge boiler plant to derive soap from rendered beef fat,’ he says. 'Even 15 years after closing, it still smells nauseous.’
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