Saturday, April 17, 2010
Christos muse is dead
Photo: dpaNew York --
Her most spectacular project was certainly the wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin, the couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude was considered the most flamboyant pair of the international art scene.
51 years were the two artists together, and now Jeanne-Claude died at the age of 74 years in New York.
Christo and his muse and wife were both born in 1935 at the same day that currently have two joint projects. Christ wants to accomplish now anyway.
"He wants to redeem the promise that they have been together many years ago: that the art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude to go on," said the photographer of the family, Wolfgang Volz. "Just like Jeanne-Claude himself would have wished."
Riverside Arkansas, a more than ten-kilometer journey is to be veiled. Three to seven meters above the water creates a wave of shiny fabrics, interrupted by bridges, rocks, trees and streams of light.
The second project is about more than 400,000 stacked oil barrels in the United Arab Emirates.