Giants,
Rising Up, Hong Kong, China, 2023
Technique: lithograph printed on Marinoni machine
Paper: White paper BFK Rives - 270 grams
Numbered /180 on the bottom left corner
Signed by JR on the bottom right corner (embossed and lead)
Lithograph shipped unframed - shipping will begin last week of August
Rising Up depicts an athlete gracefully propelling herself backward above the Hong Kong skyline, inviting viewers to take off and achieve more. The work is an ode to JR’s first Giants installations which debuted during the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and captured the perfect motion of athletes.
As an athletic gesture, “rising up” embodies taking the risk to separate oneself from solid earth, resist the pull of gravity, and feel the brief freedom of flight.
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