JR started out in the banlieues of Paris more than twenty years ago and has taken his art all over the world with giant public art installations that are able to interact with large numbers of people and engage entire communities, from the Brazilian favelas to a maximum security jail in California, from the Pyramid of the Louvre to the Egyptian pyramids, from the border between Israel and Palestine to that between Mexico and the United States.
The exhibition, which will be open to the public from 9 February to 16 July, begins at the museum entrance with the staircase transformed into a trompe l’œil with an anamorphic image, an optical illusion with which visitors will be encouraged to interact.
It continues in the underground rooms where, thanks to a series of videos, photographs, wooden sculptures and the striking display of large tarps, visitors will be able to retrace and immerse themselves in the work and the trips that enabled the Parisian artist to contemplate one of the most important issues of our time. Product of the meetings and public art activities undertaken by JR, the works conclude in the Sala Immersiva where a video installation specially created for the occasion plots the "trips" of the large tarps in other parts of the world which, in this project, represent the common theme of the narrative.
