Main entry:

Christo, 1935-2020, artist, interviewee.

Title & Author:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude : water projects / Germano Celant ; English translation, Paul Metcalfe.

Publication:

Cinisello Balsamo, Milano : Silvana editoriale S.p.A., [2016]
©2016

Description:

343 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held in Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, April 7-September 18, 2016.
Includes interview with Christo by Germano Celant and excerpts from the artists' writings.
Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
Art and architecture on water / Germano Celant -- Water projects / Christo and Germano Celant -- Projects 1961-2016 -- Where : Stacked oil barrels and dockside packages: Cologne Harbor, Germany 1961 -- Wall of oil barrels: the iron curtain: Rue Visconti, Paris, France 1961-1962 -- Wrapped buildings: New York City, New York, USA 1964-1968 -- 42,390 cubic feet package: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 1966 -- Wrapped bridges: Rome, Italy, Sydney Australia, Paris, France 1967-1972 -- Wrapped Kunsthalle: Bern, Switzerland 1967-1968 -- 5,600 cubicmeter package: Documenta IV, Kassel, Germany 1967-1968 -- Wrapped fountain and wrapped medieval tower: Spoleto, Italy 1968 -- Wrapped Museum of Contemporary Art and wrapped floor and stairway: Chicago, Illinois, USA 1968-1969 -- Wrapped coast, one million square feet: Little Bay, Sydney, Australia 1968-1969 -- Wrapped monuments: Milan, Italy 1970 -- 2000 metres wrapped, inflated pier: Rio de la Plata, Argentina 1970 -- Valley curtain: Rifle, Colorado, USA 1970-1972 -- Running fence: Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, USA 1972-1976 -- The wall: wrapped Roman wall: Via Veneto and Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy 1973-1974 -- Oceanfront: Newport, Rhode Island, USA 1974 -- The Pont Neuf wrapped: Paris, France 1975-1985 -- Wrapped walk ways: Jacob Loose Park, Kansas City, Missouri, USA 1977-1978 -- The Mastaba, project for the United Arab Emirates: United Arab Emirates 1977-ongoing -- Surrounded islands: Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, USA 1980-1983 -- The umbrellas: Japan-USA 1983-1991 -- Wrapped floors and stairways and covered windows: Museum Würth, Külzelsau, Germany 1994-1995 -- Wrapped Reichstag: Berlin, Germany 1971-1995 -- Over the river, project for the Arkansas River: State of Colorado, USA 1992-ongoing -- The Daiba Project, project for Odaiba Park: Tokyo Bay, Japan 1996 -- Wrapped trees: Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen, Switzerland 1997-1998 -- The gates: Central Park, New York City, New York, USA 1979-2005 -- The floating piers: Lake Iseo, Italy 2014-2016 -- When -- List of works -- List of sources -- Appendix : Biography -- Selected solo exhibitions -- Selected bibliography -- Filmography.
Text in English.

Summary:

"Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Water Projects, edited by Germano Celant in collaboration with con CVJ Corporation, is the title of the catalogue (published in English and Italian) released on the occasion of the exhibition by the same title, opening in Brescia at the Santa Giulia Museum, April 7, 2016. The catalogue includes Christo and Jeanne-Claude's realized and not realized large-scale projects from 1961 to 2016. Besides the famous wrapped monuments, from the Kunsthalle in Bern (1967-1968) to the Reichstag in Berlin (1971-1995), the publication also includes the barriers made with barrels or with fabric, from Wall of Oil Barrells -- The Iron Curtain in Paris (1961-62) to Valley Curtain in Rifle, Colorado (1960-62), the great inflatable objects, from 42,390 Cubic Feet Package of Minneapolis (1966) to 5600 Cubicmeter Package, Project for documenta IV in Kassel (1967-1968), and the fabric pathways, such as Wrapped Walk Ways in Kansas City (1977-1978), or doors, such as The Gates in New York (1979-2005). The seven Water Projects -- Christo and Jeanne-Claude's installations sharing a connection with water -- are considered in further depth. In these projects, from Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California (1972-1976) to Over the River, project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado (1992), the artists worked establishing a close connection with natural, suburban and urban landscapes which all share a relation with water, be it an ocean, a sea, a lake or a river. Among the Water Projects we must mention The Floating Piers, an installation opening June 18 to July 3, 2016, which will allow visitors to walk across Lake Iseo and along its shores on a 3-kilometre route. By means of modular floating piers covered in shimmering yellow fabric, the installation will link the town of Sulzano on the lake's shores, to Monte Isola, also reaching the Island of San Paolo. Every work included in the catalogue is accompanied by an explanatory text with all the relevant technical and historical information, along with preparatory drawings, collages, scale models, and photographic documentation of the project's phases of ideation, preparation and realization. The catalogue, besides a rich photographic section, includes an introductory text by Germano Celant and a dialogue between the curator and Christo. The volume also comprises the artists' biography and a complete list of projects, bibliography and filmography."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9788836633579 (paper)
8836633579 (paper)

Subject:

Christo, 1935-2020 Exhibitions.
Jeanne-Claude, 1935-2009 Exhibitions.
Christo, 1935- Expositions.
Jeanne-Claude, 1935-2009 Expositions.
Jeanne-Claude, 1935-2009.
Christo, 1935-2020
Installations (Art) Exhibitions.
Water in art Exhibitions.
Installations (Art) Expositions.
Eau dans l'art Expositions.
Installations (Art)
Water in art.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
interviews.
Interviews.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Celant, Germano, author, curator, interviewer.
Jeanne-Claude, 1935-2009, artist.
Metcalfe, Paul, translator.
Museo di Santa Giulia (Brescia, Italy), host institution.

Water projects

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296925
Call No.: BIB 243246
Status: Available