Street Artist JR Installs Optical Illusion at Milan Train Station

La Nascita by JR, 2024, via JR and Stazione di Milano Centrale   The acclaimed French artist JR presents a new illusionistic installation in Milan, Italy. Open to the public from April 10 to May 1, 2024, La Nascita invites visitors to explore the connection between the storied past and bustling present of Milan Central Station in Piazza Duca d’Aosta. JR’s First Sculptural Installation The artist JR interacting with La Nascita, via JR and Stazione di Milano Centrale JR is a street artist whose colossal photographic collages have appeared across the globe, from the Louvre Museum to the U.S.-Mexico border. He began his career as a graffiti artist in Paris, where he first glued copies of photographs onto outdoor walls as a teenager. Today, JR’s distinctive black-and-white murals and installations are known worldwide for their effective combination of public art and activism. JR’s latest installation is La Nascita, Italian for “the birth.” Commissioned for Milan Design Week 2024, this public art piece is JR’s first sculptural installation. Instead of using his signature artistic medium of paper and glue, JR printed photographic images of rock formations directly onto large aluminum panels. The sprawling installation ushers viewers into luxury fashion house Moncler’s exhibition...