20-02-2017 13:16 via theartnewspaper.com

JR's giant public art gets first show in Middle East

The French artist JR, best-known for his giant art works on city walls, gets his first major retrospective in the Middle East with an exhibition opening at QM Gallery Katara in Doha next month (9 March-31 May 2017).The show will feature video and photographic documentation of JRs most famous public works such as Women Are Heroes (2008), for which he pasted portraits of women from conflict zones on to street walls; Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games (2016), where the artist created giant installa
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