Christo

Philip Guston

Georges Braque

Margit Rowell

Stuart Davis

Raoul Dufy

Juan Gris

Domenico Gnoli

Paul Cézanne

De Chirico, Giorgio

Patrick Henry Bruce

Glenn Lowry

Iwan Babij

Carlo Carra

Andre Derain

Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov

Henri Laurens

The Modern Still Life

Objects of Desire

Jacob Baal-Teshuva

Jeanne-Claude

A brief study of the life and work of conceptual artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Christo and Jeanne-Claude are renowned, above all, for their temporary, monumental interventions in landscapes and cities. Fabric is a defining feature of their projects, which they use to wrap, conceal or otherwise manipulate buildings or landscapes. The oil barrel sculptures and installations which they created since the beginning of their careers are just as numerous, though less well known. In the late 1950s, Christo started to wrap used oil drums which he had found on scrapyards or bought cheaply at recycling sites. Later, he began piling up the untreated oil drums to form ever larger structures. The largest project of this kind to date is a giant sculpture made up of 410,000 oil drums in the desert of the United Arab Emirates. The project has been developing since 1977, and ever since the death of Jeanne-Claude in 2009 Christo has continued it on his own. This book, published to accompany the large exhibition at Fondation Maeght in the south of France, shows many photos and pictures of works, some of which have never been published before. They offer a comprehensive insight into Christo and Jeanne-Claude's oil drum projects. Significantly, it contains a detailed documentation of a sculpture specially created by Christo for the famous Giacometti courtyard at Fondation Maeght. Exhibition: Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France (04.06. - 27.11.2016).

Barrels

Christo & Jeanne-Claude

In February 2005, Christo and Jeanne-Claude will complete a monumental work of art in New York City's Central Park. The project, first conceived in 1979, will feature 7500 16-foot-high vinyl gates lining the park's paths, from which will hang saffron-colored fabric panels. TASCHEN will document this project from start to finish in two editions. A first edition will be published in January 2005, containing photo documents and preparatory drawings for The Gates. This edition, published directly after the installation has been realized, will contain 32 extra pages showing photographs of the completed work of art.

Three Works in Progess : Wrapped Reichstag, Project for Berlin, The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York, Over the River, Project for Western U.S.A : 8 March - 29 April, 1995

Project for Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin : Collages, Drawings, Scale Model and Photographs

Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.)

A Survey

Christo: Urban Projects

Stapled catalogue lists 24 works; chronology; bibliography.

Christo (Christo Vladimirov Javacheff).

Matthias Koddenberg

Summary: Das vorliegende Buch, das in enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Künstler entstand, illustriert eine Serie von Plastiken, die Christo im Sommer 1961 in Paris schuf. Physisch existiert heute keine der Arbeiten mehr. Lediglich die hier reproduzierten Aufnahmen haben sich erhalten. Ein Großteil von ihnen wurde noch nie zuvor publiziert. / The present book, put together in close cooperation with the artist, illustrates a series of twelve sculptures that Christo made in Paris in the summer of 1961. Physically, none of the works exists today. Only the photographs reproduced here survived. The majority of them have never been published before.

the Paris sculptures 1961

Artist File

Iconic images from 50 years of transforming cities Christo (born 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) have always compared their work to that of urban planners. And it is true that the projects they have carried out around the world since the 1960s not only have huge dimensions but are also at the center of public debates and disputes. The very fact that their projects are subject to approval by local authorities makes them sometimes resemble public construction projects more than works of art. For the first time, this book gives a comprehensive account of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's urban projects. It presents preparatory drawings, collages and models for many little-known works from the artists' early career, some of which were never carried out, such as the planned wrapping of several New York City skyscrapers, as well as the spectacular large-scale projects of later years, such as the wrapping of the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris in 1985, the wrapping of the Reichstag building in Berlin in 1995 and the 2005 installation The Gates in New York's Central Park. In two detailed essays, the authors of the book explore Christo's extraordinary talent for drawing and investigate the artists' ambivalent perspective on urban space, which oscillates between a powerful critique of the city's impersonal modernism and a tribute to the liberal, democratic use of urban areas.

Urban Projects

Jörg Schellmann

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: the man with the glasses and the woman with the red hair. Each one was born on the same day in 1935, and this unusual artist couple worked together until Jeanne-Claude's death in 2009, changing the art world in the process. In large-scale actions they enveloped buildings and entire landscapes in various materials, revealing at the same time their essence and beauty. In order to finance these enormous works of art by themselves, Christo and Jeanne-Claude began making editions early on in their career - prints, collages, and objects. This completely revised, expanded, and updated catalogue of works, 'Prints and Objects', is testimony to the artist's impressive scope and to their courage. Who else would have had the idea of building a 120-meter-tall truncated pyramid out of 410,000 oil barrels in the desert of the United Arab Emirates?

Prints and Objects : Catalogue Raisonné [1963-2013]

Project for the Arkansas River State of Colorado : a Work in Progress

Over the River

The Tom Golden Collection

Twenty-one Golden Years with Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Selected from the Lilja Collection

Christo and Jeanne-Claude Projects

Josy Kraft

40 Years, 12 Exhibitions : 15 September -- 22 October 2011

Jonathan Henery

Your definitive record of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Floating Piers, the shimmering yellow walkway on Lake Iseo, Italy, from June 18 to July 3, 2016. Fabulous installation photography is accompanied by sketches, models, documents, and designs revealing the extraordinary process behind this waterborne work of art.

The Floating Piers : Lake Iseo, Italy, 2014-2016

Tilmann Buddensieg

Kunst Haus Wien

The Reichstag and Urban Projects

Art Gallery of New South Wales

John Kaldor

Essays focusing on Christo as an artist and on his art. Includes images of 'Wrapped coast - one million square feet, Little Bay, Australia'.

John Kaldor Art Project, 1990

Marina Vaizey

Examines the Bulgarian-born artist's major works, such as Surrounded Islands, Running Fences, and the Pont Neuf Wrapped, which are catagorized as both sculptures and performance art.

Christo

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