Christo \u2013 the Bulgarian conceptual artist who, with his partner in life and work Jeanne-Claude, cloaked\u00a0iconic landmarks and offered\u00a0art to the masses \u2013 has passed away at the age of 84.\u00a0\nBorn in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, in 1935, Christo Vladimirov Javacheff\u2019s early life was spent wrapped\u00a0in ideas, culture and constant...
In 1958, he wrapped his first object: an enamel paint can enveloped in a resin-soaked canvas. Wrapping would become his signature, a commentary on the 20th-century obsession with packaging, and an examination of the three-dimensional qualities of objects. Much like his Nouveau Realisme contemporaries, Christo began experimenting with everyday, found objects including beer cans and road signs. In the same year, he met his future wife and collaborator Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon.
In 1983, with a troop of 430 workers and 6,499,800 sq ft of floating pink polypropylene fabric, the duo surrounded 11 islands in Miami’s Biscayne Bay, a work that was on view for only two weeks. They wrapped Berlin’s Reichstag, the entire coast of Sydney’s Little Bay and in 1984, obtained permission to wrap the Pont Neuf, which, completed in 1607, is the oldest bridge in Paris.
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