In May 2012, JR collaborates with Cuban-American artist José Parlá on the latest iteration of The Wrinkles of the City: a huge mural installation in Havana, undertaken for the Havana Biennale, for which JR and Parlá photographed and recorded 25 senior citizens who had lived through the Cuban revolution, creating portraits which Parlá, who is of Cuban descent, interlaced with palimpsestic calligraphic writings and paintings.
Parlá’s markings echo the distressed surfaces of the walls he inscribes, and offer commentary on the lives of Cuba’s elders; together, JR and Parlá’s murals marvelously animate a city whose walls are otherwise adorned only by images of its leaders.
via: JR
Los Angeles, Lovers on the roof, USA, 2012
Los Angeles, Lovers on the roof – Close Up, USA, 2012
Los Angeles, West Hollywood, USA, 2011
Los Angeles, West Coast – Downtown, USA, 2011
Los Angeles, Robert Upside Down – Downtown, USA, 2011
Los Angeles, Action on Melrose Boulevard, John, USA, 2011
Shanghai, Zhao Liying, de jour, Chine, 2010
Shanghai, Zhai Zhixin, Chine, 2010
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La Havana, Rafael Lorenzo y Obdulia Manzano, Cuba, 2012
La Havana, Leda Antonia Machado, Cuba, 2012
La Havana, Alfonso Ramón Fontaine Batista, Cuba,2012