Magda Danysz presents

JR’s SOLO SHOW
AN AMAZING PROJECT AT THE SCALE OF THE CITY

Artist /艺术家 : JR
The Wrinkles of the City / 城市肌理

Opening Cocktail: Sunday October 24th, 2010 from 6 to 9PM

Show from Sunday October 24th to Saturday December 11th, 2010
everyday from 11AM to11PM 18Gallery, 18 Zhongshan East Road (E1), 4F, Shanghai

开幕酒会：2010年10月24日（周四）晚上6点至9点
展期：2010年10月24日－ 12月11日
展览开放时间：周一至周日 11:00AM - 11:00PM
地址：中国 上海 中山东一路18号4楼18画廊（近南京东路）


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The Wrinkle of the City / 城市肌理

The Wrinkles of the City / Les sillons de la ville / Los Surcos de a Ciudad /城市肌理, is a world scale project by JR. The project starts with portraits of elderly people who represent the memory of a city past. JR interviews each person and records the changes witnessed in the city. Then these portraits, printed in monumental sizes, are pasted in the very same city in various places that inspire JR and represent the city’s heritage. Memory can stumble and fall - disappear any minute as the elderly leave us - JR shows us that it is important not to forget what the elderly have to pass on to younger generations. Without any judgment, JR just gives us bits of history in an artistic, yet poetic, social and above all, human way.

The Wrinkle of the City / 城市肌理, 是JR在全世界范围内计划的一个艺术项目。JR先挑选能代表城市记忆且拥有风趣往事经历的老年人作为对象，为他们画肖像画。并且JR询问每位长者亲眼目睹城市所历经变化的问题。然后，以巨型篇幅打印出他们的照片，按照JR的灵感，张贴在同一个城市的各个地方，这些地方也代表着城市的历史遗产。随着这些长者留给我们的记忆，时而模糊，时而被忘却，JR要告诉我们：一定要记住老年人传输给年轻人的记忆是至关重要的。
Limited edition prints by JR

WHO IS JR? JR是？

Recently awarded by the famous TED prize for his street action, JR defines hismelf as photographer who works on the borders of art and activism. To him the streets are one big art gallery and the city is a playground for larger-than-life shows. Since 2001, from Paris to Los Angeles via Montfermeil-Clichy-sous-Bois (France, Jerusalem), JR has presented many of his giant pasted photos in street shows. JR began photography in 2000. He began by photographing graffiti artists in action, then decided to invest himself the walls of his own city; Paris.
作为摄影师的JR，始终处于艺术与激进运动的边缘。对他来说，大街是一个大型的艺术画廊，城市则是庞大的展示场。自2001年以来，从巴黎，经法国Montfermeil、Clichy、Sous、Bois城市或耶路撒冷，至洛杉矶，JR非法地在大街上展示许多巨型粘贴照片。

In 2004, he worked on his series 28 millimeters. The first chapter was called Portrait of a Generation and made the cover of the New York Times. Giant portraits of young people from Parisian suburbs were shown in their own towns, and then to raise consciousness, were brought back to the center of Paris and were shown in the European House of Photography and Art Center in City Hall.After that in 2007 he added a second chapter to his series 28 millimeters - Face2Face, Israelis and Palestinians - Portrait of Twin Brothers. JR made portraits of Israelis and Palestinians who had the same job to show them literally face to face on both sides of the “separation/ security” wall in Israel and in several Palestinian and Israeli towns.
决定将自己投身在巴黎城市的墙壁上自2007年起，JR启动了新项目“妇女是英雄”，并在2008年向公众展出。JR拍摄了塞拉利昂，利比里亚，苏丹南部和肯尼亚的妇女，以此赞扬：即使生活在冲突地区，她们所表现出的高尚的人格尊严，并且共同分享她们的个人故事。在她们的祖国，JR展出她们的画像，并在世界多个城市举办空前规模的展览。由此使JR萌发将项目扩展到巴西，并将镜头聚焦整个贫民区、柬埔寨以及印度。“妇女是英雄”，同时也是JR制作的一部电影的主题，并被官方选定为戛纳电影节“影评周”的影片。从那时起，JR从事于新系列的作品”城市肌理”，隐喻着当地年长居民有关亲眼见证城市的记忆。每个粘贴的画像仅为其中的一层，即一张纸张和胶水的厚度。然后在墙面上将画像逐渐叠加起来。因画像不断的被重叠，面庞上皱纹体现城市的沧桑，突出历史的踪迹，有时以痛苦的方式体现出城市失去了某些青春的色彩。

Then in 2007 JR initiated his project Women Are Heroes, which was shown in 2008. By photographing women in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Southern Sudan and Kenya, JR pays tribute to these conflict areas and shares their stories of dignity. He exhibited portraits in their home countries and in spectacular exhibitions in several cities around the world. The project led JR in Brazil was done on the scale of an entire favela (Portuguese for slum) and then pursued in Cambodia and India.

Women Are Heroes was also the subject of a film made by JR, selected at the Cannes Film Festival for the Critics' Week in association with the Official Selection.

Since then, JR has started a new series of works involving Wrinkles of the City, imprinting the cities’ memories through the testimony of their elderly inhabitants. Each pasted portrait is like a layer, thick with paper and glue, which is then superimposed on the facades. The superimposition of the portraits and their wrinkles shows the city’s creases, highlights traces of history, sometimes even in a painful way for a city that has also lost certain aspects of its own youth.

决定将自己投身在巴黎城市的墙壁上自2007年起，JR启动了新项目“妇女是英雄”，并在2008年向公众展出。JR拍摄了塞拉利昂，利比里亚，苏丹南部和肯尼亚的妇女，以此赞扬：即使生活在冲突地区，她们所表现出的高尚的人格尊严，并且共同分享她们的个人故事。在她们的祖国，JR展出她们的画像，并在世界多个城市举办空前规模的展览。由此使JR萌发将项目扩展到巴西，并将镜头聚焦整个贫民区、柬埔寨以及印度。“妇女是英雄”，同时也是JR制作的一部电影的主题，并被官方选定为戛纳电影节“影评周”的影片。从那时起，JR从事于新系列的作品”城市肌理”，隐喻着当地年长居民有关亲眼见证城市的记忆。每个粘贴的画像仅为其中的一层，即一张纸张和胶水的厚度。然后在墙面上将画像逐渐叠加起来。因画像不断的被重叠，面庞上皱纹体现城市的沧桑，突出历史的踪迹，有时以痛苦的方式体现出城市失去了某些青春的色彩。
Main information

Show 1 : 18Gallery - Magda Danysz, Bund18, 18Zhonshan DongYi Lu, Shanghai, 26 october to 11 december 2010
Show 2 : Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, 23 october 2010 to 28 february 2011
Show 3 : In the whole City from 23 october 2010