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London’s Tower Bridge is to be transformed into a gigantic outdoor art gallery to celebrate the European Football Championship, the city’s mayor Sadiq Khan announced Wednesday.
London will host eight matches during the tournament, including both semifinals and the final.
As well as the iconic bridge across the River Thames, four other across the British capital will be pasted with more than 3,000 black and white portrait photographs in celebration of the competition.
The art project by French artist JR will cover pavement, roads and buildings across London with his epic black and white portraits. The gallery across Tower Bridge will be longer than two football pitches.
City Hall said the exhibition, called Inside Out, will be the capital’s cultural celebration of football and its ability to bring people together.
More than 3,000 black and white photographs of Londoners’ faces will be exhibited at five locations across the city as part of a large-scale public installation by JR, capturing the stories of Londoners during the tournament and celebrating the people that make up the British capital, said a City Hall spokesperson.
