Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Projects from 1972 to 2013 with american landscapes and emblematic drawings that evince the duo’s iconic installations. Draping, wrapping, or surrounding existing landscapes with thoughtfully engineered fabric a trademark of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s interventions that reveal a new appreciation of the natural world. These built environment temporarily altered physical spaces creating new visual experiences of the sites.
From the initial sketches to the finished hyper-detailed works, Christo’s drawings reveal the evolution of an idea and constitutes what Christo referred to as the “growing process.” “Works on paper can be a combination of photographs, fragments of other projects, technical information… […] the drawings reflect the evolution of the project. It doesn’t emerge from my thoughts ‘fully equipped.” Ultimately, Christo’s drawings reflect the years of research and accumulated knowledge involved in conceiving and eventually realizing these impermanent, yet historic projects.
