Life’s work Christo becomes perfect after death | Abroad

Christo Vladimiroff Javacheff had plans for wrapping the triumphal arch decades ago. In the 1960s he made a photomontage of this idea, in the late 1980s a collage. The project finally became concrete in 2017. Christo passed away in May last year. His artwork should have been executed later that year. That was postponed due to the pandemic and is now happening in mid-September.

Christo spent several years in the French capital in the late 1950s and early 1980s. He also met his wife Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon there. Together they formed a well-known artist duo. The French mainly focused on the performing side, the Bulgarian on the artistic side. After years of nagging for a permit, they wrapped the Pont Neuf in gold cloth in 1985.

The couple realized several huge, temporary works of art. They also covered the Reichstag in Berlin with dust. One of their best-known projects is “Surrounded Islands,” for which they circled islands in Florida’s Biscayne Bay with pink plastic.

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