JR started as a graffiti artist at the age of 15, however after he found a camera his style changed from just doing the graffiti to documenting how they got to the places they do the graffiti and pasting his work up in a spray painted gallery on buildings and construction sites. In 2005 the les boquets riots took place, JR took advantage of this by showing a different side of the people involved in the riots. these were seen in the news by reporters standing in front of them showing the artificial galleries JR had created.
JR's second project was face 2 face where he addressed the conflict between Israel and Palestine. JR wanted to show the people of Palestine and Israeli that they are not different and that the conflict is unnecessary. He achieved this because when people saw his pastings of people form Palestine and Israeli up next to each other who had the same job, they couldn't tell the difference between them. In JR's next project he wanted to celebrate women. So unknown to the media he went to Rio de Janeiro and proceeded to take photos of the women there and paste it up on the houses. JR wanted to address women because they are always the first to be impacted by poverty or conflict. Respectfully, in prior to putting up the work he gets to know the community and asks if he can put up the work. When he went to India to continue his "Woman are Heroes" he wasnt allowed to paste up his work so instead he glued the walls so that over time the dust which was kicked up from the city floor would reveal the photo as it stuck to the glue. Another thing JR does is he doesn't accept sponsorship or branding because he doesn't want to present someone else's agenda and wants to represent the people who he is photographing. The most important thing to JR are the stories that come with the photos, This is because he wants to give a voice to those who cant get one for themselves so it must be them who are the main objective of his work. |
Gordon Magnin creates artwork which changes the perspective of a familiar subject by changing the geometry of the face shape to create what he calls outside of our normal existence. It is no surprise this has happened through his engineering and architecture educational background. He does this by changing his subjects face and distorting it. he does this to show a new perspective on how people view other people.
I think Gorgon Magnin is considering insecurities in his work, insecurities that people would have of they faces and how other people think they look like. So by changing people face shapes it shows that there is nothing wrong with them and people are not as bad looking as they think in their own self image. |
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Kensuke was born in 1980 in Nagoya, Japan. In his student life he studied visual arts in the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and later at the Institute of Architecture. He carries out his work using mostly photography and video, which he finds more suitable to represent reality of possible contradictions.
Kensuke believes that each person or thing has a hidden side and describes it as "like TV" because those medias convey and manipulate images that they choose to show the public and therefore change the perspective of the audience. He also says that the "detail we see is part of reality, but we never know whats behind that detail", In my opinion Kensuke is trying to show, through his images, that people put on a fake version of themselves to deceive the people who see them and therefore by changing the appearance of the face Kensuke also changes how those people are viewed. Just like TV. Another thing Kensuke believes that what medium he chooses to work on weather it be photography, video or drawing must have to mose suitable means in order to achieve the concept that he wants to present to his audience. |