By Myriam Ait Malk
By Myriam Ait Malk
Rabat – In his most recent work, JR, a French street artist, chose his own hometown to create a large black and white photographic piece that covers a glass pyramid situated right in front of the Louvre Museum, causing it to “disappear” when the viewer is standing in front of it.
JR told the Associated Press that he loves “people being destabilized and trying to find the point that scales with the background.”
Tourists and the local population were flabbergasted in front of such a unique sight and, according to Associated Press, “jostled each other Wednesday to take the historic selfie of the Louvre without the visible glass structure.”
JR is a French artist who travels the world, publically exposing his art on street and monument murals. He claims to have “the biggest art gallery of the world,” and by this he means the world itself.
From Brazil to Berlin to Amsterdam, JR has used a technique known as “photographic collage” on murals and monuments of cities that have endured devastating events.
Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
