Christo - Unieke, met stift gesigneerde affiche "wrapped Reichstag project for Berlin"

• Grote, in 1993, speciaal voor de  solo expositie van fotograaf wolfgang Volz in het Kunsthaus Wien gemaakte kleuren offset "wrapped Reichstag / project for Berlin".  Gesigneerd met zwarte stift door Christo rechtsonder. Afmetingen 83x49cm. In zeer goede conditie. 

• Artist: Christo Title: The Wrapped Vestibule, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Medium: Offset lithograph Date: 1990 Edition: 300 Sheet Size: 29 7/8" x 23" Signature: Hand signed in brown crayon

Condition : A-:  minor signs of handling - strong and fresh colouring

In der Ausstellung im KunstHausWien werden Original-Zeichnungen, Collagen, eine Fotodokumentation von Wolfgang Volz sowie ein Modell - die Vision des Künstlers von seinem Werk „Wrapped Reichstag – Verhüllter Reichstag, Projekt für Berlin“ gezeigt. Es werden ausgewählte Arbeiten und Fotografien von realisierten Stadtprojekten in Paris, Bern, Chicago, Kassel, Rom, Mailand, Kansas City und Miami aus der Zeit zwischen 1962 und 1985 ausgestellt.

Christos erstes Projekt in Paris „Iron Curtain Wall of Oil Barrels, Rue Visconti, Paris1962“ war eine Mauer aus Ölfässern, mit der er die Rue Visconti blockierte, als Symbol für die Berliner Mauer. Christo verhüllte unter anderem die Kunsthalle in Bern, verwirklichte das Projekt „Wrapped Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1969“ gestaltete ein Projekt für die Documenta in Kassel im Jahr 1969 und umsäumte elf Inseln in Florida mit pinkfarbenem Stoff. Die Umhüllung der Pont Neuf, der ältesten Brücke in Paris, war das zweite Projekt, das Christo in Paris realisierte.

Wrapped Reichstag – Verhüllter Reichstag, Projekt für Berlin


Christo was a Bulgarian-born environmental installation artist who, with his wife Jeanne-Claude, routinely "wrapped" familiar structures and landscapes to prompt new ways of seeing through concealment. Christo was born Christo Vladimirov Javachef in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, on June 13, 1935; Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon was born on the very same day in Casablanca, Morocco. The couple met in October 1958, when Christo was commissioned to paint a portrait of Jeanne-Claude's mother. Shortly thereafter, they married and embarked on a series of collaborative projects beginning with Rideau de Fer, or Iron Curtain, in which they blocked off the Rue Visconti in Paris with oil barrels as a statement against the Berlin Wall. Many other monumental projects followed, including the Wrapped Coast of Little Bay in Sydney, Australia, and the famous Running Fence project, in which a 25-mile fabric fence, supported by steel cables, was constructed to traverse the valleys between Sonoma and Marin Counties in California. Using materials such as nylon and polypropylene fabric, concrete, aluminum, and steel, Christo and Jeanne-Claude worked to produce works that were striking in both their scale and their sensitivity to the environments they shrouded. These works were credited solely to Christo until 1994, when the outdoor works and large indoor installations were retroactively credited to Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The couple's projects were always designed to be temporary, the sites in question restored to their former states and most materials recycled. Christo was once quoted as saying, "Do you know that I don't have any artworks that exist? They all go away when they're finished. Only the preparatory drawings, and collages are left, giving my works an almost legendary character. I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain." Despite the controversy and enormous public speculation occasioned by the building of such large-scale works of art, Christo and Jeanne-Claude always maintained that their projects contained no deeper meaning than their immediate aesthetic impact. The purpose of their art, they contended, was always simply to create works of art or joy and beauty and to forge new ways of seeing familiar landscapes. Jeanne-Claude died at the age of 74 on November 18, 2009.Christo was a Bulgarian-born environmental installation artist who, with his wife Jeanne-Claude, routinely "wrapped" familiar structures and landscapes to prompt new ways of seeing through concealment. Christo was born Christo Vladimirov Javachef in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, on June 13, 1935; Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon was born on the very same day in Casablanca, Morocco. The couple met in October 1958, when Christo was commissioned to paint a portrait of Jeanne-Claude's mother. Shortly thereafter, they married and embarked on a series of collaborative projects beginning with Rideau de Fer, or Iron Curtain, in which they blocked off the Rue Visconti in Paris with oil barrels as a statement against the Berlin Wall. Many other monumental projects followed, including the Wrapped Coast of Little Bay in Sydney, Australia, and the famous Running Fence project, in which a 25-mile fabric fence, supported by steel cables, was constructed to traverse the valleys between Sonoma and Marin Counties in California. Using materials such as nylon and polypropylene fabric, concrete, aluminum, and steel, Christo and Jeanne-Claude worked to produce works that were striking in both their scale and their sensitivity to the environments they shrouded. These works were credited solely to Christo until 1994, when the outdoor works and large indoor installations were retroactively credited to Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The couple's projects were always designed to be temporary, the sites in question restored to their former states and most materials recycled. Christo was once quoted as saying, "Do you know that I don't have any artworks that exist? They all go away when they're finished. Only the preparatory drawings, and collages are left, giving my works an almost legendary character. I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain." Despite the controversy and enormous public speculation occasioned by the building of such large-scale works of art, Christo and Jeanne-Claude always maintained that their projects contained no deeper meaning than their immediate aesthetic impact. The purpose of their art, they contended, was always simply to create works of art or joy and beauty and to forge new ways of seeing familiar landscapes. Jeanne-Claude died at the age of 74 on November 18, 2009.