This artist is known for his large-scale outdoor works, often created in collaboration with his wife, Jeanne-Claude. His pieces transformed public spaces, inviting viewers to perceive their surroundings in new ways. The artistic approach involved temporary interventions in landscape and architecture, evoking powerful visual and emotional experiences. His work explored the relationship between art, space, and human perception.
For 14 days in the summer of 1995, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Wrapped Reichstag transformed the German parliament building into a sumptuous flow of silvery fabric. It was the completion of a 24-year-long artistic process, as much a tale of tenacity as of technical and imaginative genius. Through original documents, photographs, drawings,...
This long-awaited new edition is expanded and completely revised, featuring 80 new photographs, some previously unpublished. Christo (1935-2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) created breathtaking artworks that challenged traditional views of painting, sculpture, and architecture. This lavish photo book is the first comprehensive publication on their oeuvre since Christo's passing in May 2020. It also serves as a prelude to their final major project—the wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, scheduled for fall 2021. The book offers a wealth of photographs and studio snapshots from 1949 to 2020, including private images that provide an intimate look behind the scenes of their monumental installations, which captivated audiences for decades. Alongside images of the artists at work, it documents all their major projects. Matthias Koddenberg, an art historian and close friend of the artists, dedicated years to compiling over 300 images for this volume. These include contributions from companions and friends, as well as previously unpublished photographs from the artists' estate. Together, they narrate the extraordinary story of the couple's artistic collaboration and their five-decade-long partnership.
Fabric monuments In the summer of 1995, the Reichstag building in Berlin was transformed into an immense sculptural experience by Christo and Jeanne-Claude along with a team of hundreds of workers. Using fabric materials has become a famous tradition for Christo and landscape projects in the USA, Japan, and Australia and urban projects such as the Pont Neuf Wrapped in Paris have established them as the most extraordinary artist couple of the age. This in-depth survey of their unusual work is illustrated with absorbing photographs by Wolfgang Volz. About the Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series
Christo und Jeanne-Claude, der Mann mit der Brille und die Frau mit den roten Haaren. Das ungewöhnliche Künstlerpaar, das 1935 am selben Tag geboren wurde und bis zu Jeanne-Claudes Tod 2009 gemeinsam arbeitete, veränderte die Kunstwelt. In groß angelegten Aktionen verhüllten sie Gebäude und ganze Landschaften und enthüllten dabei deren Kern und Schönheit. Um diese gewaltigen Kunstwerke aus eigenen Mitteln finanzieren zu können, begleiteten Christo und Jeanne-Claude sie schon früh mit Editionen – Grafiken, Collagen und Objekten. Dieses umfassend überarbeitete, ergänzte und aktuelle Werkverzeichnis der Prints and Objects beweist die beeindruckende Bandbreite der beiden Verpackungskünstler und ihren Mut. Wer sonst käme auf die Idee, in der Wüste der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate einen 120 Meter hohen Pyramidenstumpf aus 410 000 Ölfässern errichten zu wollen?
Bilddokumentation zu Verhüllungsprojekt und -aktion; mit einer Chronologie des Reichstagsgebäudes
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