STREET ART, GRAFFITI & ETC (CCLXXII) 

"French artist JR is one of the few who has done well over the past year, exhibiting his large-scale trompe l’oeil photographic installations in Paris and São Paulo. In his most recent installation in Florence, JR makes a striking visual commentary on 'the adversities that cultural institutions — including museums, libraries, and cinemas — have faced over the past year' (...). Called La Ferita ('The Wound' in Italian) and 'measuring 28 meters high and 33 meters wide, this optical illusion creates a ‘crack’ in the exterior' of the Palazzo Strozzi, 'so that viewers can see masterpieces like Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Primavera'" (aqui; ver também aqui)