Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo (Gabrovo, Bulgary, 13rd June of 1935) y Jeanne-Claude (Casablanca, Morocco, 13rd June of 1935)
Biography:
* Biography
1935
Christo: American Bulgarian-born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, June 13, Gabrovo, of a Bulgarian industrialist family.
Jeanne-Claude: American, French-born Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, June 13, 1935, Casablanca, of a French military family, educated in France and Switzerland.
1952
Jeanne-Claude. Baccalaureat in Latin and Philosophy, University of Tunis.
1953-56
Christo: Studies at Fine Arts Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
1957
He studies one semester at the Vienna Fine Arts Academy.
1958
Christo arrives in Paris where he meets Jeanne-Claude.
Packages and Wrapped Objects
1960
Birth of their son, Cyril, May 11. Cyril Christo is a poet. He studied at Cornell University and graduated from Columbia University in 1982. Five books of his poems have been published. In 1998 he married Marie B. Wilkinson. Their son Lysander Christo was born September 22, 2005.
1961
Project for the Wrapping of a Public Building
Stacked Oil Barrels, Dockside Packages at Cologne Harbor. Tarpaulin and rope. Duration: 2 weeks. Their first collaboration.
1962
Iron Curtain-Wall of Oil Barrels, Rue Visconti, Paris, 1961-62 240 barrels. Height: 4. 3 meters (14 feet). Width: 3. 8 meters (13 feet). Depth: 1. 7 meters (5 feet 6 inch). Duration: 8 hours.
Stacked Oil Barrels, Gentilly, near Paris.
Wrapped Woman 1962
Showcases.
1963
Store Fronts and Show Windows
1964
Establishment of permanent residence in New York City.
1966
Air Package 1966. Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Rubberized canvas balloon and rope Diameter: 5.18 meters (17 feet.). Duration: One month.and Wrapped Tree 1966.
42,390 Cubicfeet Package 1966 at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis School of Art. Length:18 meters (60 feet) Polyethylene: 720 square meters (8,000 square feet). Manila rope: 914 meters (3,000 feet) Duration: Three days.
1968
Wrapped Fountain and Wrapped Medieval Tower, Spoleto, Italy Polyethylene and ropes. Duration: 3 weeks.
Wrapping of a Public Building "Wrapped Kunsthalle Berne 1967-1968" Fabric: 2,430 square meters (27,000 square feet.) Rope: 3,050 meters (10,000 feet.) Duration: 7 days.
5,600 Cubicmeter Package, Documenta 4, Kassel, Germany 1967-68 An Air Package 82 meters (280 feet) high, six concrete foundations arranged in a 275 meter (900 foot) diameter circle. Fabric: 1,980 square meters (22,000 square feet) Weight: 6,350 kilograms (14,000 pounds). Rope: 3,657 meters (12,000 feet) Duration: two and a half months.
Corridor Store Front, total area: 135 square meters (1,500 square feet).
1,240 Oil Barrels Mastaba, and Two Tons of Stacked Hay, Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art.
1969
Wrapped Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Tarpaulin: 900 square meters (10,000 square feet) and rope. Duration: 40 days.
Wrapped Floor and Stairway. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. House painter&Mac226;s cotton drop cloths, 252 square meters (2,800 square feet) and rope. Duration: 40 days.
Wrapped Coast, Little Bay, One Million Square Feet, Sydney, Australia, Erosion Control fabric: 90,000 square meters (1,000,000 square feet) and 58 kilometers. (36 miles) of ropes. Duration:
Two months.
1970
Wrapped Monuments, Milano: Monument to Vittorio Emanuele, Piazza del Duomo, Milano, Italy. Polyethylene and rope.
Duration: Two days.
Monument to Leonardo da Vinci, Piazza della Scala, Milano, Italy. Polyethylene and rope. Duration: Seven days.
1971
Wrapped Floors, Covered Windows and Wrapped Walk Ways, Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany. House painter's cotton drop cloths. Duration: 30 days.
1972
Valley Curtain, Grand Hogback, Rifle, Colorado, 1970-72, Width: 381 &Mac246; 417 meters (1,250-1,368 feet). Height: 56 &Mac246; 111 meters (185- 365 feet). Nylon polyamide fabric: 12,780 square meters (142,000 square feet). Steel cables: 49,895 kilograms (110,000 pounds); 800 tons of concrete. Duration: 28 hours.
1974
The Wall, Wrapped Roman Wall, Via V. Veneto and Villa, Borghese, Rome, Italy. Polypropylene fabric and Dacron rope. Height: 15 meters (49 feet). Length: 250 meters (820 feet). Width varying between: 4 and 5,5 meters (13 to 18 feet). Duration: 40 days.
Ocean Front, Newport, Rhode Island. Surface: 128 x 97 meters (450 x 320 feet). 13,500 square meters (150,000 square feet) polypropylene fabric floating over the ocean. Duration: 8 days.
1976
Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-76. 5.5 meters. (18 feet ) high, 39.4 kilometers (24-1/2 miles) long, crossing 14 roads. 2,050 fabric panels: 192 square meters (240,000 square yards) of woven nylon fabric suspended from 144 kilometers (90 miles) of steel cables. 2,080 steel poles, each: 9 cm. (3-1/2 inch) diameter, 6.4 meters (21 feet long). Duration: 14 days.
1977
The Mastaba, Project for United Arab Emirates, in progress.
1978
Wrapped Walk Ways, Loose Park, Kansas City, Missouri, 1977-78 12,000 square meters (15,000 square yards) of woven nylon fabric over 4.5 kilometers (2.8 miles of walkways. Duration: 14 days.
1983
Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83. Pink woven polypropylene fabric floating around eleven islands: 585,000 square meters (6.5 million square feet). Duration: 14 days.
1984
Wrapped Floors and Stairways and Covered Windows, Architecture Museum, Basel, Switzerland. House painter&Mac226;s cotton drop cloths. Duration: 30 days.
1985
The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Paris, 1975-85. 40,876 square meters (454,178 square feet) woven polyamide fabric. 13,076 meters (42,900 feet ) of rope. Duration: 14 days.
1991
The Umbrellas, Japan-U.S.A., 1984-91. 1,340 blue umbrellas in Ibaraki, Japan; 1,760 yellow umbrellas in California. Each umbrella: height: 6 meters (19 ft 8 in), diameter: 8.66 meters (28 ft 6 in). Valley size in Japan: Length: 19 kilometers (12 miles). Width: 4 kilometers (2. 5 miles). Valley size in USA: Length: 29 kilometers (18 miles). Width: 4 kilometers ( 2. 5 miles) Duration: 18 days.
1992
Over The River, Project for The Arkansas River, Colorado. in progress.
1995
Wrapped Floors and Stairways and Covered Windows 1995. Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany. House painter&Mac226;s cotton drop cloth on the floor and stairs and brown wrapping paper on the glass of the windows. Duration: 3 months.
Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95. 100,000 square meters (1,076,000 square feet) of polypropylene fabric. 15,600 meters (51,181 feet) of rope and 200 metric tons of steel. Duration: 14 days.
1998
Wrapped Trees, Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen-Basel, Switzerland 1997-98. 178 trees. 53,283 square meters (592,034 square feet) of woven polyester fabric, 23 kilometers (14.3 miles) of rope. Duration: 21 days.
1999
The Wall,13,000 Oil Barrels, Gasometer, Oberhausen, Germany,1998-99. An indoor installation. Height: 26 meters (85 feet). Width: 68 meters (223 feet). Depth: 7.23 meters (24 feet). Duration: 6 months.
2005
The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005 7,503 vinyl gates, with free-flowing nylon fabric panels, anchored to 15,006 steel bases on 37 kilometers (twenty-three miles) of walkways. Duration: 16 days.
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Exhibitions:
* Museum Collections
Akron Art Museum, Ohio, USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Albuquerque Museum of Art, New Mexico, USA
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, USA
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of Ontario / Musée des Beaux Arts de I'Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, USA
Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, Indiana, USA
Basil and Elise Goulandris Museum of Modern Art, Andros, Greece
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Boise Art Museum, Idaho, USA
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, USA
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia
Cartwright Art Gallery, Bradforf, West Yorkshire, England
Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain
Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Montréal, Canada
Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Chillida-Leku (Museum), San Sebastian, Spain
CIGNA Museum and Art Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA
Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt Am Mein, Germany
Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Fondation Beyeler, Basel-Riehen, Switzerland
Fondation Pierre Gianada, Martigny, Switzerland
Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University MN, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka City, Japan
Galerie d’Art Moderne, Geneva, Switzerland
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
Galleries at the Sainsbury Centre of Visual Art, Norwich, England
Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, Maryland, USA
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, USA
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
Kitakyushu-City Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu-City, Japan
Krefelder Kunstmuseen, (Kaiser Wlhelm Museum), Krefeld, Germany
Kunst Museum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Kunst Museum, Hannover, Germany
Kunstgewerbemuseum Der Stadt, Zürich, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum, Berne, Switzerland
Kunstverein Salzgitter, Salzgitter, Germany
Kupferstichkabinett Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Leeum Samsung Museum, Seoul, Korea
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Madison Art Center, Wisconsin, USA
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL, USA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, MN, USA
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, USA
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, USA
Miyanomori Museum, Sapporo, Japan
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany
Musée Barbier Mueller, Geneva, Switzerland
Musée Cantini, Marseille, France
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Carré d’art, Nimes, France
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Musée de Grenoble, France
Musée de Toulon, France
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Museum of the City of New York, NY, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Teheran, Iran
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, (SMAK) Gent, Belgium
Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Germany
Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, USA
Neue Galerie Der Stadt Linz, Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, Linz, Austria
Neue Galerie Der Stadt, Aachen, Germany
Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, USA
New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, Australia
New Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
Obala Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia
Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
Portland Museum of Art. Maine, USA
R & H Batliner Art Foundation, Salzburg, Austria
Rainbow Museum of Modern Art, Shimizu-shi, Shizuoka-ken, Japan
Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA
Santa Barbara Museum, California, USA
Sara Hildenin Taidemuseo, Tampere, Finland
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
Sintra Museu de Arte, Sintra, Portugal. From Collection Berardo
Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York City, NY USA
Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA
Sprengel-Museum, Hannover, Germany
StaatsGalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Takamatsu Municipal Museum of Art, Marugame-City, Takamatsu, Japan
The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Soquel, California, USA
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, USA
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
The Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
The Pennsylvania Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
The Power Institute of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia
The Saint. Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA
The Sogetsu Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
The Takanawa (Seibu) Museum of Art, Karuizawa, Japan
The Tate Gallery, London, England
Tokushima Prefecture Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan
Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Collection Dorothy Schramm, Iowa City, USA
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA
Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA
Wilhem-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, USA
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, Japan
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