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Artist Statement:
Christo & Jeanne-Claude's
works are entire environments,
whether they are urban or
rural. The artists disrupt one
part of the environment, In
doing so, we see and perceive
the whole environment with new
eyes and a new consciousness.
The effect is astounding. To
be in the presence of one of
these artworks is to have your
reality rocked. You see things
you have never seen before.
You also get to see the fabric
manifest things that cannot
usually be seen like the wind
blowing, or the sun reflecting
in ways it had not before.
The effect lasts longer than
the actual work of art. Years
after every physical trace has
been removed and the materials
recycled, original visitors
can still see and feel them in
their minds when they return
to the sites of the artworks.
There is no other way to
describe that the feeling of
that effect other than to say
it is magical.
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Further Information
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Artist Galleries:
Nohra Haime Gallery
41 East 57th Street, New York,
New York 10022
telephone: 212-888-3550, fax:
212-888-7869
hours: Tuesday-Saturday
10:00-6:00
200 N Greensboro Street
Carr Mill Mall
Carrboro, North Carolina USA
27510
Tel: (888) 968-8008
Fax: (919) 968-8064
Hours: Mon.-Sat. ...
Further Information
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Exhibitions for Javacheff Christo:
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1961
Project for the "Wrapping of a Public Building."
"Stacked Oil Barrels" and "Dockside Packages" in Cologne Harbor, Christo and Jeanne-Claude's first collaboration.
1962
"Iron Curtain-Wall of Oil Barrels" blocking Rue Visconti, Paris.
"Stacked Oil Barrels" in Gentily, near Paris.
"Wrapping a Girl," London.
1963
"Showcases"
1964
Establishment of permanent residence in New York City.
"Store Fronts"
1966
"Air Package" and "Wrapped Tree," Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
"42,390 Cubic Feet Package," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis School of Art
1968
"Wrapped Fountain" and "Wrapped Medieval Tower," Spoleto
Wrapping of a public building "Kunsthalle Berne"
"5,600 Cubicmeter Package," Documenta 4, Kassel (an Air Package 280 feet high with foundations arranged in a 900 foot diameter circle.)
"Corridor Store Front," total area: 1,500 square feet.
"1,240 Oil Barrels Mastaba," and "Two Tons of Stacked Hay," Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary art, Chicago
1969
"Wrapped Museum of Contemporary Art," Chicago
"Wrapped Floor and Stairway," 2,800 square feet drop cloths, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Wrapped Coast, Little Bay, One Million Square Feet, Sydney, Australia" (erosion control fabric and 36 miles of rope.)
Project for Stacked Oil Barrels "Houston Mastaba, Texas, 1,249,000 barrels
Project for "Closed Highway"
1970
Wrapped Monuments, Milano: Monument to Vittorio Emanuele, Piazza Duomo
Monument to Leonardo da Vinci, Piazza Scala
1971
"Wrapped Floors" Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
1972
"Wrapped Reichstag, Project for Berlin" (in progress)
"Valley Curtain, Grand Hogback, Rifle, Colorado, 1970-72" Width: 1,250-1,368 feet. Height: 185-365 feet - 200,000 square feet of nylon polyamide; 110,000 lbs of steel cables; 800 tons of concrete.
1974
"The Wall, Wrapped Roman Wall, Via V. Veneto and Villa Borghese, Rome"
"Ocean Front, Newport, Rhode Island" 150,000 square feet of floating polypropylene fabric over ocean.
1976
"Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, 1972-76" 18 feet high, 24.5 miles long. Two million square feet of woven nylon fabric, 90 miles of steel cables, 2,050 steel poles (each: 3.5 inch diameter, 212 feet long)
1978
"Wrapped Walk Ways, Loose Park, Kansas City, Missouri, 1977-78" 15,000 square yards of woven nylon fabric over 2.8 miles of walkways.
1979
"The Mastaba of Abu Dhabi, Project for United Arab Emirates" (in progress)
1980
"The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City" (in progress)
1983
"Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83" 6.5 million square feet pink woven polypropylene fabric.
1984
"Wrapped Floors and Stairways" of Architecture Museum, Basel, Switzerland.
1985
"The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Paris, 1975-85" 440,000 square feet of woven polyamide fabric, 42,900 feet of rope.
1991
"The Umbrellas, Japan-USA, 1984-91" 1,340 blue umbrellas in Ibaraki, Japan; 1,760 yellow umbrellas in California, USA Height: 19 ft 8 in., Diameter: 28 ft 6 in.
1992
"Over The River, Project for Western USA"
1995
"Wrapped Floors and Stairways and Covered Windows" Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany.
"Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95", 100,000 sq.meters (1,076,000 sq.ft.) of fabric,15,600 m. (51,181 feet) of rope and 200 metric tons of steel.
1998
"Wrapped Trees, Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen-Basel, Switzerland 1997-98"
1999
"The Wall - 13,000 Oil Barrels, Indoor Installation and Exhibition at the Gasometer, Oberhausen, Germany 1998-99"
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