1935 Shared Birthday
Christo: Born Christo Javacheff, June 13, Gabrovo, of a Bulgarian industrialist family.
Jeanne-Claude: Born Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon, June 13, Casablanca of a French military family.
1952 Jeanne-Claude: Baccalaureate in Latin and Philosophy, University of Tunis.
1953-56 Christo: Studies at Fine Arts Academy, Sofia. 1956 arrival in Prague.
1957 One semester's study 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.
1961 Project for the "Wrapping of a Public Building."g
"Stacked Oil Barrels" and "Dockside Packages" in Cologne Harbor, Christo and Jeanne-Claude's first
collaboration.
1962 "Iron Curtain-Wall of Oil Barrels" blocking Rue Visconti, Paris.
"Stacked Oil Barrels" in Gentily, near Paris.
"Wrapping a Girl," London.
1963 "Showcases"
1964 Establishment of permanent residence in New York City.
"Store Fronts"
1966 "Air Package" and "Wrapped Tree," Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
"42,390 Cubic Feet Package," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis School of Art.
1968 "Wrapped Fountain" and "Wrapped Medieval Tower," Spoleto
Wrapping of a public building "Kunsthalle Berne"
"5,600 Cubicmeter Package," Documenta 4, Kassel (an Air Package 280 feet high with foundations arranged in a 900 foot diameter circle.)
"Corridor Store Front," total area: 1,500 square feet.
"1,240 Oil Barrels Mastaba," and "Two Tons of Stacked Hay," Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary art, Chicago
1969 "Wrapped Museum of Contemporary Art," Chicago
"Wrapped Floor and Stairway," 2,800 square feet drop cloths, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Wrapped Coast, Little Bay, One Million Square Feet, Sydney, Australia" (erosion control fabric and 36 miles of rope.)
Project for Stacked Oil Barrels "Houston Mastaba, Texas, 1,249,000 barrels
Project for "Closed Highway"
1970 Wrapped Monuments, Milano: Monument to Vittorio Emanuele, Piazza Duomo
Monument to Leonardo da Vinci, Piazza Scala
1971 "Wrapped Floors" Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
1972 "Wrapped Reichstag, Project for Berlin" (in progress)
"Valley Curtain, Grand Hogback, Rifle, Colorado, 1970-72" Width: 1,250-1,368 feet. Height: 185-365 feet - 200,000 square feet of nylon polyamide.
1974 "The Wall, Wrapped Roman Wall, Via V. Veneto and Villa Borghese, Rome"
"Ocean Front, Newport, Rhode Island" 150,000 square feet of floating polypropylene fabric over ocean.
1976 "Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, 1972-76" 18 feet high, 24.5 miles long. Two million square feet of woven nylon fabric, 90 miles of steel cables, 2,050 steel poles (each: 3.5 inch diameter, 212 feet long)
1978 "Wrapped Walk Ways, Loose Park, Kansas City, Missouri, 1977-78" 15,000 square yards of woven nylon fabric over 2.8 miles of walkways.
1979 "The Mastaba of Abu Dhabi, Project for United Arab Emirates" (in progress)
1980 "The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City" (in progress)
1983 "Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83" 6.5 million square feet pink woven polypropylene fabric.
1984 "Wrapped Floors and Stairways" of Architecture Museum, Basel, Switzerland.
1985 "The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Paris, 1975-85" 440,000 square feet of woven polyamide fabric, 42,900 feet of rope.
1991 "The Umbrellas, Japan-USA, 1984-91" 1,340 blue umbrellas in Ibaraki, Japan; 1,760 yellow umbrellas in California, USA Height: 19 ft 8 in., Diameter: 28 ft 6 in.
1992 "Over The River, Project for Western USA" (in progress)
1995 "Wrapped Floors and Stairways and Covered Windows" Museum W�rth, K�nzelsau, Germany. "Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin,
1971-95", 100,000 sq.meters (1,076,000 sq.ft.) of fabric,15,600 m. (51,181 feet) of rope and 200 metric tons of steel.
1998 "Wrapped Trees, Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen-Basel, Switzerland 1997-98"
1999 "The Wall - 13,000 Oil Barrels, Indoor Installation and Exhibition at the Gasometer, Oberhausen, Germany 1998-99"
2002 He�s busy to make a new project.
Javacheff Christo is een groot kunstenaar met een heel aparte kunst: objecten, huizen, zelfs eilanden inpakken in plastic. Ook zie je muren van olievaten enz.. Ik vindt het wel een heel boeiend persoon met indrukwekkende werken. Een van z�n mooiste kunstwerk vind ik de omwalde eilanden van Miami. Ook schrijft hij boeken om zijn kunstwerken te kunnen betalen.
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-1969 Christo: Wrapped Coast, One Million Square Feet. Photographs by Shunk-Kender. Designed by Christo. Contemporary Art Lithographers, Minneapolis, USA. -1978 Christo: Wrapped Walk Ways. Essay by Ellen Goheen. Photographs by Wolfgang Volz. Designed by Christo. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, USA. -1986 Christo: Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83. Photographs by Wolfgang Volz. Introduction and Picture Commentary by David Bourdon. Essay by Jonathan Fineberg. Report by Janet Mulholland. Designed by Christo. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, USA. -1995 Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95. The Project Book.. Photographs by Wolfgang Volz. Benedikt Taschen Verlag, GmbH, K�ln, Germany.
Dit zijn maar enkele boeken van de stapel die hij geschreven heeft. Je ziet ook dat hij van z�n projecten ook boeken maakt.
Bronnen: www.rogallery.com / www.google.be/afbeeldingen / www.christojeanneclaude.com / www.annelyjudafineart.co.uk/artists/christo/gates.htm en ook nog enkele zoekrobots.