Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations, often large landmarks and landscape elements wrapped in fabric, including the Wrapped Reichstag, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Running Fence in California, and The Gates in New York City’s Central Park.
Born upon the similar day in Bulgaria and Morocco, respectively, the pair met and married in Paris in the late 1950s. Originally working below Christo’s name, they later endorsed their installations to both “Christo and Jeanne-Claude”. Until his own death in 2020, Christo continued to aspiration and slay projects after Jeanne-Claude’s death in 2009.
Their work was typically large, visually impressive, and controversial, often taking years and sometimes decades of cautious preparation – including profound solutions, political negotiation, permitting and environmental approval, hearings and public persuasion. The pair refused grants, scholarships, donations or public money, instead financing the feint via the sale of their own artwork.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude described the myriad elements that brought the projects to fruition as integral to the artwork itself, and said their projects contained no deeper meaning than their sudden aesthetic impact; their try being clearly for joy, beauty, and supplementary ways of seeing the familiar.
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