Christo
Artist
1935-06-13 – 2020-05-31
Christo was a Bulgarian-born artist known for large-scale environmental installations created with Jeanne-Claude. Their projects included wrapping buildings and landscapes around the world.
Books by Christo
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To Kill a Kingdom
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Christo
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude
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Quotes by Christo
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If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.
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People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.
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We wish to work in total freedom.
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Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like.
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We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.
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I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.
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In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.
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Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian.
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And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.
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