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

Offset lithograph by Christo (*)
About the 'Surrounded Islands' project carried out in California.
Published by Carl Flach and Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf.
Edited on glossy Fine Art cardboard (170g)


Specifications

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

The artwork will be carefully handled and packaged in a reinforced cardboard box. The shipment will be certified with a tracking number.

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, who was born the same year as him. They married and decided to combine their creative talents. Their first joint exhibition was organized in 1961. In the same year, they created packaging projects at the port of Cologne. The following year, as a protest against the Berlin Wall, they assembled a giant installation in Paris, on Visconti Street, stacking barrels of oil and gasoline. This period marked the beginning of thousands of proposals, including numerous poetic and monumental packaging projects that aimed to express the ephemeral as an artistic form.
The couple settled in New York in 1964, and Christo and Jeanne–Claude became American citizens. They took over the space, wrapping, cutting, coloring, and transforming monuments and landscapes, giving the 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 defend their projects themselves, producing them with their own resources. For each of them, they create preparatory drawings, graphic works (lithographs and silkscreens), collages, models, and films, the sale of which funds the project itself. 'The Gates,' their latest realization, was presented in New York at the beginning of 2005. It is a 37-kilometer walk through Central Park dotted with 7,500 gates wrapped in saffron-colored fabric. Their next project is titled 'Over the Arkansas River'; it will be installed in Colorado.
Christo died at eighty-four years old, on May 31, 2020.