Exactly sixty years after their first installation in Paris – a barricade of barrels denouncing the then recently erected Berlin Wall – Christo and Jeanne-Claude return, albeit posthumously, to the city where they first met. The object this time is t

The Guardian   Kim Willsher   Operation combining art and engineering on a massive scale fulfils dream of late artist couple. Shortly after the sun rose over central Paris, the first of the orange-clad rope technicians hopped over the top of the Arc de Triomphe and began to absei

The Guardian   Kim Willsher   The Arc de Triomphe in Paris will be swathed in silvery blue fabric and red rope as a posthumous project planned by the artist Christo since the early 1960s finally becomes reality. Work will begin next month on L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, a €14m ins

1935-2020 He whom critics called the “wrapper artist,” whose full name was Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, was born on 13 June 1935, the same day as the woman who would be his wife and inseparable companion in artistic endeavors: Jeanne-Claude Denat de

Luis Alemany   The artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff’s life ended on 31 May with an air so romantic as to seem unreal. He was born on 13 June 1935, the same day as his wife, Jeanne-Claude Denat. She was born in Casablanca, and he in Gabrovo (Bulgaria). How did th

The Guardian   Alex Needham   Bulgarian creator of large-scale public artworks worked in collaboration with wife Jeanne-Claude. Christo studied in Sofia and then defected to the west in 1957, stowing away on a train from Prague to Vienna...

The New York Times   Joshua Barone   Christo announced that he had received permission from the French government and the country’s Center for National Monuments to wrap the Arc de Triomphe, one of the most famous landmarks in Paris, next year from April 6 through 19. The project, “L’Ar

Reinhold Würth, empresario al frente del grupo Würth, líder en la fabricación de fijaciones y tornillos, posee una de las colecciones particulares de arte más importantes de Alemania. Las obras pueden verse en varias sedes distribuidas por diez paíse