Jacob Baal-Teshuva

Jeanne-Claude

Christo

A brief study of the life and work of conceptual artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Teodora Bobcheva

“Our projects are not something out of fantasy. Fantasy is what we find in the cinema and the theatre, our imaginative notion of things. But when we feel the real wind, the real sun, the real river, the mountain, the roads - this is reality, and we use it in our work. Our projects carry that reality.”

“Christo and Jeanne-Claude do not work for financial gain or to leave permanent monument to their egos. Just as parents work unselfishly to provide for their children, the artists work to finance their projects. Their expenses and long days of work are repaid only in the joy and beauty they derive from seeing their projects realized.”

“All our projects have a very strong nomadic quality, like the nomadic tribes that build their tents, by using this vulnerable material, there is a greater urgency to be seen-because tomorrow it will be gone... nobody can buy these projects, nobody can own them, nobody can commercialize them, nobody can charge tickets to see them, even ourselves, we do not own there works. Our work is about freedom. Freedom is the enemy of possession, and possession is the equal of performance. This is why the work cannot stay.”

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Reviews