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"We call Christo and Jeanne-Claude's projects art because we have no other choice. To call them madness would be one alternative, but madness is far less innovative. For half a century now, Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been upsetting our viewing habits for brief moments and thus sharpening our eye for landscapes and buildings whose existence we have long taken for granted. The congregation of thousands of people from various nations, religions and social strata at one place for the sole purpose of celebrating art, celebrating irrationality, leaves its imprint on anyone who has ever had the chance to be there when one of these large-scale ephemeral projects was being carried out." Matthias Koddenberg, excerpted from his foreword to Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Early Works 1958-64.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude were both born in 1935, Christo as Christo Vladimirov Javacheff in Bulgaria and Jeanne-Claude as Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon in Casablanca to a French military family. They met in Paris in 1958, had a baby boy in 1960, and collaborated until Jeanne-Claude's death in 2009. Their monumental projects include Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95, The Umbrellas, Japan-U.S.A., 1984-91, and The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City, 1979--completed in 2005.
Edited with text by Lorenza Giovanelli, Ingrid Rowland. Text by Bernard Blistène, Matthias Koddenberg. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Staffan Ahrenberg.
The latest issue of the acclaimed journal Cahiers d’Art celebrates Christo through a range of interior and exterior projects, with previously unpublished drawings and photographs
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'Christo and Jeanne-Claude: In/Out Studio' is a remarkable book, a perfect combination of archival photographs, behind-the-scene views, drawings, collages, objects and an abundance of images that have never been published before. On Wednesday, April 1 at 7PM Christo will speak and sign copies of the book at 192 Books in Chelsea. read the full post
Published by Hatje Cantz. Edited with text by Jörg Schellmann. Introduction by Matthias Koddenberg.
Though born on the same day in 1935, artists Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009) did not cross paths until many years later in Paris. The seemingly fated couple married quickly and embarked on a decades-long artistic collaboration until Jeanne-Claude’s death, engaging creatively with the environment around them through site-specific installations that often enveloped buildings and entire landscapes with fabric and nylon. In order to fund their ambitious projects, Christo and Jeanne-Claude began making more salable items, such as prints, collages and objects, early on in their career. This volume is a completely revised and expanded catalogue raisonné of pieces that may have been made on a smaller scale but with no less creative fervor. This publication is a testament to a creative collaboration that never allowed convention to limit the scope of its activity.
Published by Cahiers d'Art. Edited with text by Lorenza Giovanelli, Ingrid Rowland. Text by Bernard Blistène, Matthias Koddenberg. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Staffan Ahrenberg.
Edited in close collaboration with Christo (1935–2020), this Cahiers d’Art issue focuses on the artist’s “in & out architecture,” through a selection of his indoor spaces, such as the Show Windows, the Store Fronts, the Wrapped Floors and Staircases, and his outdoor projects, such as the Wrapped Trees and the Air Packages.
This sumptuously produced volume includes unpublished drawings and photographs, as well as essays by Lorenza Giovanelli, Matthias Koddenberg, Ingrid Rowland and Bernard Blistène, and the very last interview given by Christo.
Published by Kerber. Text by Friedhelm Hütte, Ingrid & Thomas Jochheim, Matthias Koddenberg.
Christo (born 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (1935–2009) are among the most popular artist couples of our time, and have succeeded in breaking through the boundaries of the art world and arousing the enthusiasm of a broad public for their shrouding of buildings and their installations in large landscape spaces.
This volume is published for their exhibition at the recently opened PalaisPopulaire in Berlin. It presents works from the Jochheim Collection, which spans and traces the history of their spectacular large-scale projects. The focus of the volume is on the wrapping of the Reichstag, but it also presents rare early objects.
Published by D.A.P./Verlag Kettler. Edited with text by Matthias Koddenberg. Text by Laure Martin-Poulet.
Christo (born 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (1935–2009) have always compared their work to that of urban planners. And it is true that the projects they have carried out around the world since the 1960s not only have huge dimensions but are also at the center of public debates and disputes. The very fact that their projects are subject to approval by local authorities makes them sometimes resemble public construction projects more than works of art.
For the first time, this book gives a comprehensive account of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s urban projects. It presents preparatory drawings, collages and models for many little-known works from the artists’ early career, some of which were never carried out, such as the planned wrapping of several New York City skyscrapers, as well as the spectacular large-scale projects of later years, such as the wrapping of the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris in 1985, the wrapping of the Reichstag building in Berlin in 1995 and the 2005 installation The Gates in New York’s Central Park. In two detailed essays, the authors of the book explore Christo’s extraordinary talent for drawing and investigate the artists’ ambivalent perspective on urban space, which oscillates between a powerful critique of the city’s impersonal modernism and a tribute to the liberal, democratic use of urban areas.
PUBLISHER D.A.P./Verlag Kettler
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 216 pgs / 135 color / 65 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 3/27/2018 Out of stock indefinitely
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 16
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Published by Silvana Editoriale. Edited with text by Germano Celant. Text by Christo, Jeanne-Claude.
Water Projects presents the complete series of large-scale projects implemented or devised by Christo and Jean-Claude from 1961 to 2016. In addition to the renowned wrapped monuments, from the Kunsthalle in Bern (1967–1968) to the Reichstag in Berlin (1971–1995), the works featured include installations made of barrels and fabrics such as Wall of Oil Barrels: The Iron Curtain (Paris, 1961–1962) and Valley Curtain (Rifle, Colorado, 1970–1972); huge inflatable objects like 42,390 Cubic Feet Package (Minneapolis, 1966) and 5,600 Cubic Meter Package; the project for Documenta IV (Kassel, 1967–1968); and paths (Wrapped Walk Ways, Kansas City, 1977–1978) and portals (The Gates, New York, 1979–2005).
Also included are preparatory drawings for Christo’s latest work, Floating Piers (2014–2016), a walkway stretching nearly two miles that connects two small islands in Lake Iseo, in Italy’s Lombardy region, to each other and to the mainland.
PUBLISHER Silvana Editoriale
BOOK FORMAT Flexi, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 344 pgs / 400 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 9/27/2016 Active
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 154
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s variations of colored oil-barrel stacks have been a recurrent formal touchstone of their work since 1962. This volume, published on the occasion of a Christo installation at Fondation Maeght, documents these sculptures, reproducing scale models and installation shots.
PUBLISHER Verlag Kettler
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 8.25 x 11.25 in. / 200 pgs / illustrated throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 11/22/2016 Active
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 154
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Published by Verlag Kettler/D.A.P.. Edited with text by Matthias Koddenberg.
Christo (born 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (1935–2009) have created some of the most visually breathtaking works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Their projects have traversed and transcended the boundaries of painting, sculpture and architecture. This lavishly designed, epic volume brings together a wealth of archival material and photographic documentation to offer an intimate behind-the-scenes view of the monumental installations with which the couple have dazzled the public. Photographs portraying the artists at work are supplemented by pictures of all their major projects--Wrapped Coast (1968–69), Valley Curtain (1970–72), Running Fence (1972–76), Surrounded Islands (1980–83), The Pont Neuf Wrapped (1975–85), The Umbrellas (1984–91), Wrapped Reichstag (1971–95) and The Gates (1979–2005)--as well as reproductions of drawings, collages and objects. Matthias Koddenberg, art historian and close friend of the artists, spent many years compiling the more than 250 mostly unpublished photographs and illustrations assembled here. Many of them show works that were previously unknown or thought lost, including early drawings and paintings dating back to when Christo was still studying art in Bulgaria. Others document temporary sculptures--Wrapped Woman (1962, 1963 and 1968), Wrapped Volkswagen (1963) and Wrapped Tree (1966 and 1969)--or works that were intentionally destroyed and only survive as photographs. The publication was put together in close collaboration with Christo and includes documentation by renowned photographers such as Ugo Mulas, Enzo Sellerio, Harry Shunk and János Kender, Charles Wilp and Wolfgang Volz, who has documented all of the artists’ projects since 1971, together with photos by associates and friends as well as pictures from the artists’ private archives.
Published by Kettler Verlag. Foreword by Matthias Koddenberg.
Decades before he and his late wife Jeanne-Claude were draping the Reichstag in cloth, Christo (born 1935) was creating much more modestly-sized packages in his Paris studio. These early objects, developed in the ferment of Nouveau Réalisme assemblage art alongside artists such as Arman and Jacques Villeglé, have come under scrutiny once more, as this intriguing phase in the history of the European avant garde has been increasingly revisited by art historians. One series of 12 sculptures by Christo from this period, made from oil barrels and metal scrap, was long thought lost to history. In fact the works have survived in photographs, very few of which have ever been published. Now, with the close collaboration of the artist himself, art historian Matthias Koddenberg has retrieved and reproduced these fascinating early works in this beautifully produced volume.
PUBLISHER Kettler Verlag
BOOK FORMAT Clth, 8.75 x 11 in. / 40 pgs / 13 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 4/30/2012 Active
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2012 p. 100
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9783862061099TRADE List Price: $40.00 CDN $54.00
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Published by Ediciones Polígrafa. Text by Jonathan Henery. Photographs by Wolfgang Volz.
This book compiles documentation for two unrealized projects by the legendary duo of Christo (born 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009): "The Mastaba," a project conceived in 1977 for the United Arabic Emirates, and "Over the River," a project recently conceived for the Arkansas River. "Mastaba," Arabic for "bench," is proposed as a sculpture of approximately 410,000 horizontally stacked and variously colored oil barrels. Trees and shrubbery would be planted around the Mastaba as a windbreak against the sand and windstorms; the area adjacent to the walkways approaching the Mastaba would resemble an oasis with flowers and grass. "Over the River" consists of a succession of fabric panels to be suspended above the Arkansas River, for a period of two weeks sometime between mid-July and mid-August of any given year in the future (2013 at the earliest). Both projects are fully illustrated with preparatory drawings and photographs of the proposed locations.
Published by Kettler Verlag. Text by Matthias Koddenberg.
The monumental but temporary interventions of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, now beloved by millions across the world, began in a very different era, in late-1950s Paris, amid the antics of Yves Klein and the assemblage art of the Nouveaux Réalistes. Composed in close co-operation with Christo and Jeanne-Claude, just prior to Jeanne-Claude's death in November 2009, Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Early Works 1958-64, is the first publication in almost 40 years to deal in depth with the early work of the duo. Previously unpublished works and photographs from the artists' archives narrate the road from Christo's arrival in Paris (from his native Bulgaria) in 1958 to his and Jeanne-Claude's relocation to New York in 1964. Along with an introductory text by Matthias Koddenberg, art historian and longstanding friend of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the book contains an extensive interview with the artists and a detailed chronology for the years 1935 to 1964.
PUBLISHER Kettler Verlag
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 192 pgs / 57 color / 50 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 6/30/2010 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2010 p. 90
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9783941100794TRADE List Price: $35.00 CDN $40.00
Published by Plexifilm. Films by The Maysles Brothers. Essay by Charles Taylor. Introduction by Albert Maysles.
Five Films About Christo and Jeanne-Claude chronicles a 30-year collaboration between the internationally renowned environmental artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and acclaimed documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles. The Maysles brothers, along with such frequent co-filmmakers as Charlotte Zwerin and Susan Froemke, have captured the artists' enduring romantic and artistic relationship and the grandeur of their large-scale temporary public works. This series of award-winning films stands as a permanent document of the process, the political drama, the emotional investment, and the transforming effect the finished works have on all those who come into contact with them. Christo and Jeanne-Claude's artistic undertakings are legendary. Whether they were surrounding islands off the coast of Florida in bright pink fabric, erecting a 24-mile-long, 18-foot-high fence of white cloth across two Northern California counties, or wrapping the Pont Neuf in Paris, their monumental works become narratives of hope and triumph in the face of adversity. And the act of filming becomes a project in and of itself, with the filmmakers present every step of the way, from planning and permission, to execution and display of these temporary artworks. This three-DVD set is the most complete motion picture collaboration ever released between filmmakers and artists. Five award-winning films are included: Christo's Valley Curtain (1974), Running Fence (1978), Islands (1986), Christo in Paris (1990), and Umbrellas (1995). Each film has been digitally remastered with new transfers supervised by Albert Maysles, and the whole is presented along with new interviews and an 82-page, full-color booklet featuring stills, drawings and essays.
PUBLISHER Plexifilm
BOOK FORMAT Slipcased, 5.25 x 7.5 in. / 82 pgs / 50 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 5/2/2004 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2004
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781891024948TRADE List Price: $59.95 CDN $70.00
Cahiers d'Art: Christo
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Projects 1963–2020
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Urban Projects
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Water Projects
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Barrels
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: In/Out Studio
Christo: The Paris Sculptures 1961
Christo & Jeanne-Claude: The Mastaba / Over the River
Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Early Works 1958-64
Five Films about Christo And Jeanne-Claude