CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE BY JACOB BAAL-TESHUVA

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This compact book spans the complete career of the couple who were born on the very same day, met in Paris, fell in love, and became a creative team like no other: with rich illustration, it spans Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s earliest projects in the 1950s right through to The Floating Piers, installed at Lake Iseo, Italy, in 2016.

The book celebrates all of the couple’s most famous environmental interventions, such as The Gates in New York’s Central Park and the Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin, while also featuring early drawings and family photos unknown to the wider public.


Number of pages: 96
Dimensions: 26 x 21 cm

About the Artist

Christo & Jeanne-Claude

United Kingdom

 

Christo and Jeanne-Claude were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations.

The one between Christo and Jeanne-Claude is a story of love and artistic collaboration that Saatchi Gallery had celebrated with their 2023 exhibition Boundless.


 

 

 

As part of our Season of Sculpture, our co-headline Winter exhibition, Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Boundless will take a retrospective look at the career and achievements of artistic collaborators and life partners Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Boundless introduces visitors to the couple’s seminal projects, ranging from their early collaborations to monumental masterpieces, among them Wrapped Coast in Australia (1968/69), Surrounded Islands (1983) in Miami/Florida, The Pont Neuf Wrapped in Paris (1985), The Umbrellas (1991), installed simultaneously in Japan and the USA, The Gates in Central Park, New York City (2005) and The Floating Piers at Lake Iseo in Italy (2016).
 
It also includes the perspective of The Mastaba project in Abu Dhabi. This exhibition is the last to ever be signed off by Christo before his death and is divided into ten thematic chapters.
 
The exhibition reveals a story of love and artistic collaboration between Christo and Jeanne-Claude. It celebrates their synergy and profound connection, contextualised alongside their artistic contemporaries, including Jean Dubuffet, Yves Klein, and Lucio Fontana.
 
Boundless unveils a vivid narrative of passionate determination, highlighting the couple’s refusal to be confined by traditional norms and how this distinctive approach, fuelled their creative vision and shaped their artistic journey.

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