Christo - Surrounded Islands (Miami) - Achenbach licensed print - 1982

Offset lithography by Christo (*)
About the project “Surrounded Islands,” executed in California.
Published by Carl Flach and Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf.
Edited on Fine Art gloss cardboard (170g).

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Specs:

- Sheet dimensions: 63.5 x 99 cm
- Year: 1982
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, so it is offered in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be sent with tracking.

The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) Christo Vladimirov Javacheff was born in 1935 in Babrovo (Bulgaria). He studied fine arts in Sofia between 1952 and 1956. Christo settled in Paris in 1958 and met Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon, born the same year as him. They married and decided to unite their creative talents. The first exhibition of the two artists was organized in 1961. In the same year they created wrappings in the port of Cologne. The following year, as a protest against the Berlin Wall, they created in Paris, on Visconti Street, a gigantic assemblage stacking barrels of oil and gasoline. This period marks the starting point of thousands of proposals among which numerous constructions, poetic wrapping projects, and gigantic works that seek to manifest the fleeting as artistic expression.
The couple moved to New York in 1964 and Christo and Jeanne-Claude became North American citizens. They dominate space, wrap, cut, color, monument and landscapes, giving to urban, rural, or maritime landscapes of their choice a new sculptural dimension (Valley Curtain, Running Fence, Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Pont Neuf in Paris, Reichstag in Berlin…).
Christo and Jeanne-Claude are distinguished by the fact that they themselves defend their projects, produce them with their own means. For each of them they execute preparatory drawings, graphic works (lithographs and screenprints), collages, maquettes and films whose sale funds the project itself. “The Gates,” their latest realization, was presented in New York in early 2005. It is a 37-kilometer walk through Central Park dotted with 7500 gates wrapped with saffron-colored fabrics. Their next work is titled ”Over the Arkansas River”; it will be installed in Colorado.
Christo passed away at eighty-four on May 31, 2020.