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

Offset lithography by Christo (*)

About the project “Surrounded Islands”, carried out in California.
Publiced by Carl Flach and Achenbach Art Edition, Düsseldorf.
Edited on Fine Art glossy cardstock (170g)

Specifications:

- Page 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, and is offered in perfect condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be tracked with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transport insurance for the full 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 from 1952 to 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 both artists was organized in 1961. In the same year they created wrappings at the port of Cologne. The following year, as a protest against the Berlin Wall, they carried out in Paris, rue Visconti, a gigantic assemblage stacking barrels of oil and gasoline. This period is the starting point of thousands of proposals among which numerous realizations, poetic wrappings and gigantic projects that aim to manifest the ephemeral as an artistic expression.
The couple settled in New York in 1964 and Christo and Jeanne-Claude became American citizens. They claimed space, wrapped, cut, colored, 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 stood out in that they themselves defended their projects, produced them with their own resources. For each of them they executed preparatory drawings, graphic works (lithographs and screen prints), collages, scale models and films whose sale funded the project itself. “The Gates”, their last realization, was presented in New York at the beginning of 2005. It is a 37-kilometer long walk through Central Park dotted with 7,500 porticoes 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."} } |