OH MY GOD........ the Christo's are coming to town!
I just watched a doc-bio on them I DVR'd from HBO and I just looked thru my photos that I took from the GATES and now they are coming to Lancaster.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Doctors of Fine Arts will be awarded at the F&M graduation!
Here is more about them from the F&M web site. I am off to try and find out if I can get tickets to the commencement ceremony. The College’s 2008 Commencement will be Saturday, May 17, 2008. From the F&M web site here is more information on the Christo's.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude are a married couple whose artistic collaboration spans five decades. Their environmental art is both visually impressive and sometimes controversial because of its scale. For example, in 2005, their installation "The Gates" in Central Park, New York City, included 7,503 vinyl gates with free-flowing nylon fabric panels anchored to 15,006 steel bases on 23 miles of walkways. They have also "wrapped" buildings, coasts, floors and stairways with fabric and rope, and used brown wrapping paper, cotton drop cloths, concrete, steel, oil barrels, umbrellas and more in their works of art, which are often temporary installations.
Born Christo Javacheff in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, Christo studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Sofia, escaping from Prague to the West in early 1957. His wife, Jeanne-Claude, was educated in France and Switzerland, earning degrees in philosophy and Latin from the University of Tunis. The two met in Paris in 1958 and have worked together since collaborating on "Dockside Packages, Cologne Harbor, 1961." At that time, the couple decided to use one name -- Christo.
Christo himself was the artist while Jeanne-Claude served as manager, art dealer, coordinator and organizer. In 1994, they officially changed the artist name "Christo" into "the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude." In 1964, they immigrated, with their son Cyril, to New York, where they now reside.
In a 2002 interview, Jeanne-Claude noted that she and her husband wanted to create works "of joy and beauty." These words were echoed in a New York Times article about the Central Park installation "The Gates" when Michael Kimmelman called the work, "pure joy, a vast populist spectacle of good will and simple eloquence." Art critic David Bourdon has described Christos wrappings as "revelation through concealment."
The couple desires to have as much liberty as possible in creating their works, so they never accept sponsorships, commissions or public funds, which could come with strings attached. Instead, the cost of their projects is covered by the sale of works of art and components of the works of art. "I often say," Christo remarked in a 2002 interview, "our work is a scream of freedom."
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