Magzoid Magazine - A Luxury Magazine in the Creative Space | July 2021

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French Artist JR’s new art installation leaves Effiel
Tower perched over ravine
An art installation has
created the optical
illusion that the French
capital’s Eiffel Tower is
perched precariously
over a rocky ravine. The artwork, by
the artist who uses the pseudonym
JR, is located at Place du Trocadéro
near the Palais de Chaillot.
The new work tricks the eye to
believe that Effiel Tower is perched
on a pair of cliffs. When a visitor
stands in the right spot, the artwork
in the foreground and the tower in
the background line up with each
Large queues of
people keen to take
pictures jumping
over the wouldbe
chasm have
formed near the
black-and-white
photomontage.
other, and the illusion is created.
Large queues of people keen to take
pictures jumping over the would-be
chasm have formed near the blackand-white
photomontage.
The Paris piece launches on the
eve of the mid-career survey, JR
Chronicles, billed as the largest solo
museum exhibition to date of the
artist’s works, which is due to launch
at the Saatchi Gallery in London
from June 4 to October 3.
The survey is an expanded
version of an exhibition shown at
the Brooklyn Museum in New York
in 2019. The show is due to include
Tehachapi (2019) which charts a
collaborative project co-created with
the inmates of a maximum-security
prison in California (JR pasted
338 strips of paper on the prison
yard floor, creating a vast mural of
prisoners and staff that is visible
from above).
In March, JR unveiled a work on
the façade of the Palazzo Strozzi in
Florence which created an illusion of
a 28m tall crack in the building which
shows the gallery in half. The art
installation was titled La Ferita.
Other notable works by the artist
include The Secret of the Great
Pyramid (2019), a large-scale illusory
collaborative piece created to mark
the 30th anniversary of the Louvre
Pyramid. JR also helped coordinate
the “Art and Image” project at the
École Kourtrajmé, a cinema school
founded by his longtime collaborator
and film director Ladj Ly.
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