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Christo (1935-2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) created some of
the most breathtaking artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Their projects radically questioned traditional conceptions of
painting, sculpture, and architecture. This lavish photo book is
the first comprehensive publication on the artists' oeuvre to be
released after Christo's death in May 2020. It also serves as a
curtain-raiser for Christo und Jeanne-Claude's last major project -
the wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which will be carried
out posthumously in the fall of 2021. Presenting a wealth of
photographs and studio snapshots from 1949 to 2020, some of which
are private, this book allows an intimate peek behind the scenes of
Christo und Jeanne-Claude's monumental installations which
fascinated the public for decades. In addition to pictures
capturing the artists at work, it includes photos documenting all
of their major projects. Matthias Koddenberg (b.1984), art
historian and close friend of the artists, spent many years
compiling the more than 300 images featured in this volume. Among
them are pictures taken by companions and friends and hitherto
unpublished photographs from the artists' estate. Together they
tell the extraordinary story not only of the couple's artistic
collaboration, but also of their five-decade-long partnership.
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Cahiers d'Art - Christo (Paperback)
Staffan Ahrenberg, Sam Keller, Hans Ulrich Obris; Text written by Matthias Koddenberg, Ingrid D. Rowland, …
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R2,142
Discovery Miles 21 420
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude rank among the most popular artist
couples of our time. They were unrivalled in breaking the art
world's tight boundaries and arousing the enthusiasm of a broad
public, across all social strata, for their spectacular shrouding's
of buildings and landscapes. The PalaisPopulaire presents the
Jochheim Collection and traces the history of Christo and
Jeanne-Claude's breathtaking large-scale projects; complemented by
their rarely seen early works. Of course, the wrapping of the
Reichstag takes centre stage, which enabled all of Berlin to shine
in a most unique way 25 years ago. Text in English and German.
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? Languages: German and English
In the autumn of 2020, Christo will wrap the Arc de Triomphe in
Paris in silvery fabric for 16 days, returning to his signature
style - after realising The Floating Piers in Italy, the London
Mastaba, and a quarter of a century after he and Jeanne-Claude
wrapped the Reichstag building in Berlin. As a prelude, a major
exhibition at PalaisPopulaire in the German capital will celebrate
this 25-year anniversary in the spring of 2020. At the same time,
the Pompidou Center will pay tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude
by staging The Pont Neuf Wrapped Documentary exhibition as well as
a comprehensive show highlighting their early years in Paris.To
accompany these events, Matthias Koddenberg, art historian and
long-time friend of both Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude, who
was the other half of the artistic duo until her death in 2009, has
edited an elaborate collection of interviews. The book is composed
of many conversations held between Koddenberg and Christo in the
artist's New York studio over the last few years. With rare
frankness, Christo describes how he fled from Bulgaria and made his
way into the Western world. He talks about his time in Vienna and
Geneva, his vibrant life in Paris that was full of hardship, and
the fateful moment when he met Jeanne-Claude. This publication
provides an exceptional inside view, uniting texts and numerous
archival images and photographs, many of which have never been
published before, or depict early works by Christo that have only
recently been rediscovered.
Decades before he and his late wife Jeanne-Claude were draping the
Reichstag in cloth, Christo (born 1935) was creating much more
modestly-sized packages in his Paris studio. These early objects,
developed in the ferment of Nouveau Realisme assemblage art
alongside artists such as Arman and Jacques Villegle, have come
under scrutiny once more, as this intriguing phase in the history
of the European avant garde has been increasingly revisited by art
historians. One series of 12 sculptures by Christo from this
period, made from oil barrels and metal scrap, was long thought
lost to history. In fact the works have survived in photographs,
very few of which have ever been published. Now, with the close
collaboration of the artist himself, art historian Matthias
Koddenberg has retrieved and reproduced these fascinating early
works in this beautifully produced volume.
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