Picture "Wrapped Building (Project for No. 1 Times Square, New York City)" (2003)
Picture "Wrapped Building (Project for No. 1 Times Square, New York City)" (2003)
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limited, 200 copies | numbered | signed | mixed media | framed | size 78 x 60 cm
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Picture "Wrapped Building (Project for No. 1 Times Square, New York City)" (2003)
The move with his wife Jeanne-Claude from Paris to New York in 1964 marked a turning point in Christo’s artistic work. His earlier small-scale vitrines gave way to larger projects of significantly greater dimensions.
Christo found inspiration in Manhattan’s streets, the architectural styles of its buildings, and its public spaces - from storefronts to galleries. To prepare for these large-scale projects, Christo frequently created drawings and collages, as seen in the work "Wrapped Building (Project for No. 1 Times Square, New York City)," which, however, was never realised.
3D collage, colour serigraph, fabric and yarn, supplemented with felt and pencil, 2003. 200 copies, numbered and signed. Size in frame 78 x 60 cm as shown.
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About Christo
1935-2020
Christo achieved world fame by extraordinarily wrapping large landmarks and landscape elements in fabric.
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff was born 13 June 1935 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, to a son of an industrialist family. From 1953 to 1956, he studied at the Sofia Academy of Fine Arts and visited Prague in 1956. The following year, Christo attended the Vienna Fine Arts Academy. In 1958, he went to Paris where he first began to wrap things – this was the beginning of the "wrapped objects".
Starting in 1961, Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) have caused a worldwide sensation with their spectacular wrapping projects. Especially the project "Wrapped Reichstag", which was planned from 1971, became an art event in 1995.
The work for the installation of the project "The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979–2005" began in 2005.
A total of 7,532 gates, each 4.87 m high and up to 5.48 m wide, were placed over a length of 37km all over the pathways in Central Park. The gates, made of saffron-coloured fabric floated down from the horizontal end of the steel gates to 2.13 m above the ground, creating a flowing, billowing incomparable spectacle. Only 16 days later the installation was set to close. But what remains is the memory of a lost landscape.
Christo strictly refused sponsorship from the public or private sector and insisted that the projects be realised only for a limited period. This leads to an extraordinary concept: Only the sale of the sketches, models, and drawings made the realisation of the installations possible, and only these documents ultimately bear witness to it. Therefore, a Christo is a work of art in its own right, but also a building block of something larger – and not least a testimony to the creative process.
Christo passed away in 2020.
An artwork in which the artist designs the motive using various materials such as pieces of paper, wallpapers, fabric scraps, wire gauze etc. This gives the work an extension into the third dimension.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy, among others.
Graphic artwork in the making of which the artist combines at least two graphic production techniques.