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Born in Bulgaria, Christo Vladimirov Javacheff arrived in Paris in 1958. There he met and married Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon with whom he worked together.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude carry out packaging in the port of Cologne. In Paris, in 1962, they assemble more than 200 barrels of oil and gasoline to express their rejection of the Berlin Wall.
Like César, Mimmo Rotella, Niki de Saint Phalle and Gérard Deschamps before him, Christo joined the group of new realists in 1963.
They settled in New York in 1964 and adopted American nationality. They continue to practice packaging as a symbol of taking possession of space and the ephemeral as an aesthetic dimension. The artists consider providing "a new sculptural dimension" to the monuments that they appropriate, drape, cut out and color. Their works are signed Christo until 1994, date from which the name of Jeanne-Claude appears.
"Our projects are works of art in situ, they are not transportable objects. Usually a normal sculpture, whether classical or modern, has its own physical space. In a way this space belongs to sculpture because it was prepared for it. Our projects touch on a broader sensibility, in fact they appropriate or borrow spaces that usually do not belong to sculpture."
