Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style.
CNN —The French street artist JR has unveiled perhaps his most complex Italian trompe l’oeil illusion piece yet, turning a square outside Milan’s Stazione Centrale railway station into a temporary exhibition site of epic proportions.
Entitled La Nascita (The Birth), the piece evokes a rugged Alpine terrain with layered black-and-white images.
However, while the Florence and Rome projects consisted of flat images mounted onto the fronts of the buildings, in Milan JR has tried to create a sense of depth.
“While the exhibition is temporary, even when it’s gone visitors will never see (the station) in the same way,” JR said.
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