Major support from GALLERY 1: INTRO/EXPO2RUE G5: GUN GALLERY 2: CHRONICLES PORTRAIT OF A GENERATION/ FACE2FACE GALLERY 3: WOMEN ARE HEROES/ CASA AMARELA START G4: G1: HERE GALLERY 4: INTRO/EXPO2RUE WRINKLES OF THE CITY WRINKLES OF THE CITY GALLERY 5: G3: WOMEN ARE HEROES/ GUN CHRONICLES G2: PORTRAIT OF A GENERATION/ FACE2FACE CASA AMARELA SECOND FLOOR GALLERY 6 & 7: INSIDE OUT PROJECT GALLERY 8: CHRONICLES OF CLICHY, SAN FRANCISCO AND G9: TEHACHAPI/ G6: INSIDE OUT NEW YORK CITY LOUVRE/ KIKITO PROJECT GALLERY 9: TEHACHAPI/ LOUVRE/ G8: CHRONICLES OF G7: INSIDE OUT KIKITO CLICHY, SAN FRANCISCO, PROJECT NEW YORK 3 JR was born in Paris, France. He began his career as a street artist. “I own the largest gallery of the world – the walls of the city!” -JR What is a street artist? Put a tick next to your answer. ❑ Someone who paints road markings and signs ❑ Someone who creates art in public spaces ❑ Someone who likes painting pictures of roads Have you seen any street art before? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Street art often gets washed or worn away, so documentation has become a big part of JR’s work. Today, around the Gallery, you will see lots of different mediums and materials. Check them off here as you walk through the exhibition. ❑ Photograph ❑ Wheat-pasted poster ❑ Video ❑ Vinyl wall sticker ❑ Sculpture ❑ Canvas Can you see a camera in a glass box? Where did JR find his first camera? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ JR’s art studies the encounters you have with other people on these kinds of journeys, however fleeting they might be. What was your journey like to get here today? Who did you meet? Can you help us get to the Saatchi gallery? Arriving at the Gallery means your adventure hasn’t finished! Exploring art is a journey in itself. Look at these funny Can you make an even funnier funny face? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ faces on the walls! Which is your favourite _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Get an adult to take a picture of you pulling it. one that you can see in See if you can get it in black & white like JR’s the Gallery? Why?: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ photographs. Do you know a woman who is your hero? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ What about them is heroic? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ What would your superpower be? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Can you see how JR has pasted facial features from his photographs onto buildings? He connects these people with the place they live. Can you draw some of your own on these London landmarks? How about some eyes? Or a big smiley mouth! Can you see a JR built his house in the shape of a moon. picture of a Could you turn this star into your house? house with a Don’t forget the windows and doors! yellow moon on the wall of the Gallery? This is what is inside the moon! Would you like to stay here? JR photographed the oldest people who live in places that have seen lots of cultural, social and economic changes and pasted them really big on the walls, looking down on the city’s history. Can you find all the words relating to this series in our word search? JR was born in France but he has worked on projects all over the world. Have a look at the big map with flags in on the wall. Can you shade in all the places on your map where you see red flags? In JR’s Inside Out project you see “hundreds, thousands of people that are not famous. They are not stars, they are not journalists. They are people like us… It’s not the same faces, but it’s the same people.” Can you draw some of your friends or family in the boxes below? NAME In the lightbox can you find…? Can you find this large art work in a lightbox on the wall? ❑ The number plate 0K-047-93 ❑ Construction workers ❑ Someone on their phone ❑ Putting out a fire ❑ A bald man wearing a sash ❑ A girl fixing a lamppost ❑ Somebody praying ❑ A high heeled shoe ❑ Someone taking a picture Can you see how JR took photos of people and then collaged them together to create DID YOU KNOW: one big artwork? In this piece there are More than 800 languages are spoken over 1000 people from New York! in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. This man on the bike is JR himself! He always wears a hat and sunglasses indoors to hide his identity. This picture of him is somewhere in the big artwork on the wall! Can you find him? “There is a story behind the image. In my work, for example, an image is just the first layer of the work. The context, the people behind it, and the time it took to create it gives the actual frame of the artwork.” - JR Name: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Age: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ What do you like to do at the weekend?_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Do you have any special or unusual skills?_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ What’s your favourite food?_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Where is your favourite place and why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ What did you like best on your visit today and why? Think about what colours, objects and materials you’ve seen….