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The artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped the Reichstag, the Pont Neuf trees and a stretch of coastline in shimmering fabric; installed saffron-colored gateways through Central Park and a running fence near San Francisco; hung curtains across a Colorado valley and wrapped a series of islands in Florida in luminous pink.
In April 2020, the Bulgarian artist known for such monumental, hard-to-classify projects will realize a project he had dreamed of with Jeanne-Claude (who passed away in 2009) back in 1962.
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In parallel with an exhibition at the Pompidou Center next year focusing on his Parisian years, the city’s triumphal arch, recently vandalized by the “yellow vests,” will be briefly transformed.
In 1961, three years after they met in Paris, Christo and Jeanne-Claude began creating works of art in public spaces.
One of their projects was to wrap a public building. At the time, Christo, who was renting a small room near the Arc de Triomphe, made several studies of a project