Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands 1980-83
ART or Design
TEMPORARY or Permanent
LARGE SCALE or Small Scale
Transforming and/or DEFINING and/or Forming
Immersive and/or DISTANT
Pattern and/or Colour and/or Repetition and/or SHAPE
No artists have textiles on the scale with the same impact as Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Surrounding Islands sees textiles used on an extremely large scale to both define and cover aspects of the natural environment.
Known for their wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin and the Point Neuf in Paris. As seen above.
The third image is their Wrapping Trees project, it was done as an effective means to temporarily transform and define the trees.
“The “wrapping” is NOT at all the common denominator of the works. What is really the common denominator is the use of fabric, cloth, textile. Fragile, sensuous and temporary materials which translate the temporary character of the works of art”
178 trees were wrapped in woven polyester fabric, which is a fabric used in Japan every winter to wrap around trees to protect them from frost and heavy snow. The wrapping both hides and draws attention to the forms inside.
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