Christo & Jeanne-Claude

Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935 Gabrovo, Bulgaria – New York 2020) was an American artist who together with his late wife Jeanne-Claude (1935 Casablanca – 2009 New York City) gained worldwide recognition as creators of environmental works of art.
Among the most recognized artworks are their wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin (1995), the Pont Neuf in Paris (1984),The Gates in New York’s Central Park (2005) and most recent the Arc de Triomph in Paris (2021).

Christo and Jeanne-Claude – The Mastaba Project for Kunstverein Köln, 1986

Christo and Jeanne-Claude – The Mastaba Project for Kunstverein Köln, 1986. Silkscreen and photo-collage. Mounted in plexiglass box. This temporary sculpture was constructed of 1.000 purpose made oil barrels for the exhibition „Die 60er Jahre – Kölns Weg zur Kunstmetropole – Vom Happening zum Kunstmarkt“, organised by the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, 31. August – 16. November 1986. This collage was part of an edition of 200, there were also 50 AP printed. Originally these prints were sold together with an oil barrel from the sculpture, original oil barrel included.

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrapped Statues Aegina Temple, 1988

This artwork is a silkscreen / collage of the proposed – not yet executed – wrapping of the Figures of the Aphai temple on the island of Aegina (Greece) exhibited in the Glyptothek Munich Museum. The entire proposed project consist of the wrapping of all the Classical sculptures in the Glyptothek. Two more silkscreens are made by Christo and Jeanne-Claude of this subject: Wrapped Statues, Sleeping Fawn, Project for the Glyptothek, Munich, 2001 and Wrapped Roman Sculptures, Project for Die Glyptothek, München,1991.

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