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JR: Chronicles @ Saatchi Gallery, London
Saatchi Gallery // June 04, 2021 - October 03, 2021
July 30, 2021 | in Installation
JR: Chronicles - the largest solo museum exhibition to date of the internationally recognised French artist JR, featuring some of his most iconic projects from the past fifteen years. Curated by Sharon Matt Atkins and Drew Sawyer from the Brooklyn Museum,
JR: Chronicles traces JR s career from his early documentation of graffiti artists as a teenager in Paris to his large-scale architectural interventions in cities worldwide and recent digitally collaged murals that create collective portraits of diverse communities. Juxtapoz covered the exhibition in Brooklyn with a cover story with JR in our Winter 2020 issue.
The exhibition comprises best-known work from the past 15 years, including the artist's legendary graffiti works and large-scale art projects plastered on buildings.