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December 8, 2021
Grace Ebert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NmxynGAmrM
A brand new feature-length documentary goes behind the scenes with French artist JR to seize a few of his most vital tasks so far, together with his poignant photographic work of a kid peering over the U.S./Mexico border wall and pair of installations at a maximum-security jail in Tehachapi, California. Paper & Glue follows the famend artist by way of the evolution of his apply from early graffiti days to his present undertakings—his anamorphic work at Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi earlier this 12 months and his illusory transformation of the Louvre courtyard in 2019 are each proof of his development—which might be more and more large in scope and impression and infrequently shine a lightweight on humanitarian points.
“The movie is the end result of years of my work and contains an archive of pictures and movies
that span again to my adolescence. On the time of many of those recordings, I had no intention or consciousness they may very well be used on this means,” JR says. “I hope this movie additional uplifts the essentiality of artwork and the potential it holds to reshape even our most ingrained beliefs.“
Paper & Glue is presently in theaters across the U.S. and premieres on December 10 on MSNBC.
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