Sports players and fans all around the world are enthusiastically gathered in Rio to celebrate the world's quadrennial event, Olympic Games Rio 2016. We are glad that there are artists are among them.
In anticipation of the Olympic Games opening this week-end in Rio De Janeiro, French artist JR unveiled a series of giant installations. The first giant street art piece represents Sudanese athlete Mohamed Younes Idriss who lives and trains in cologne, germany. ‘He missed out on qualification for the 2016 rio olympics but he is there some how,’ JR says. The second artwork which can be found around the barra neighborhood, showing a diver leaping into an adjacent area of the ocean. also attached to large-scale metal beams, the artwork illustrates an athlete with arms stretched open hovering over nearby rocks and making its way into the water below. via StreetArtNews
JR (...) describes himself as a photograffeur,
he flyposts
large black-and-white photographic images in public locations,
in a
manner similar to the appropriation of the built environment by the
graffiti artist.
He states that the street is "the largest art gallery
in the world"
...
JR's work combines art and action, and
deals with commitment, freedom, identity and limits.
The installations utilize a new technique for JR that sees his signature use of photography printed on giant sheets of fabric attached to scaffolds. From comments on Instagram it sounds like we may get to see a few more of these over the next few days. via ThisIsColossal
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