French artist JR’s incredible optical illusion reveals Louvre pyramid’s ‘secret’.
His latest eye-popping-project unveiled to mark the 30th birthday of the Louvre’s glass pyramid.
Some 400 volunteers working in teams of 50 spent four days pasting strips of printed paper on the cobbles of the courtyard, creating a giant patchwork around the pyramid commissioned by late Socialist president Francois Mitterrand.
JR, who has been dubbed the “French Banksy” after the British street artist, is famous for blowing up photographs — often of people — into huge collages that have graced the wall between Jerusalem and the West Bank and the Rio favelas, among other sites.
