About the artwork
Produced in 2021, this 7-color lithograph derives from a broader global undertaking titled *The Wrinkles of the City*, initiated in Cartagena, Spain, during 2008. The composition juxtaposes a detailed portrait of an elderly resident against a weathered, rust-covered industrial background carrying an exterior staircase. The juxtaposition explores the physical traces of aging on both human subjects and urban environments marked by historical conflict and industrial transition.
Expert opinion
This lithographic edition translates a site-specific public intervention into a collectible multiple format, reflecting the artist's strategy of broadening access to contemporary visual culture. Within the secondary market, these prints offer a tangible extension of ephemeral urban installations that otherwise exist solely through documentation.
About the artist
JR (1983) is a major artist on the contemporary art scene, working at the intersection of photography, street art, cinema and social engagement. He has worked on numerous public projects over the past two decades, and his works have been shown in cities all over the world: on buildings in the slums around Paris, on walls in the Middle East and Africa, and on favelas in Brazil. Recent exhibitions include "Chronicles at the Saatchi Gallery in London" (2021), "The Chronicles of San Francisco at SFMOMA in San Francisco" (2019) and "Momentum, la mécanique de l'épreuve at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris" (2018).
JR is also the director of three feature-length documentaries: Women Are Heroes (2011); the Oscar-nominated Visages Villages (2017), co-directed by Agnès Varda; and most recently, Paper and Glue (2021).
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