Christo Wrapped Floor

In 1970 university students in philadelphia asked christo and jeanne claude to create a work of art to celebrate the first earth day.

Christo wrapped floor.

Evan turner director of the philadelphia museum to realize wrapped stairway floor and walls at the philadelphia museum of art in the museum s grand entrance with the. For wrapped floor and stairway museum of contemporary art chicago 1968 69 christo and jeanne claude draped the interior lower gallery which had been cleared and painted white with 2 800 square feet of off white cotton dropcloth secured with ropes. For the wrapped floor and covered windows the artists covered the floor of the auditorium with house painters cotton fabric drop cloths. Christo and jeanne claude wrapped floor and covered windows museum haus lange krefeld germany 1971 photo.

In conjunction with the project the artists made a complementary work for the interior wrapped floor and stairway. The temporary indoor installation preceded christo s personal exhibition which included preparatory drawings and collages of realized and non realized projects cotton drop cloths were placed on the floor shrouding the entire ground as well as the furnishings and equipment of the. Christo vladimirov javacheff 1935 2020 and jeanne claude denat de guillebon 1935 2009 known as christo and jeanne claude were artists noted for their large scale site specific environmental installations often large landmarks and landscape elements wrapped in fabric including the wrapped reichstag the pont neuf wrapped running fence in california and the gates in new york city. Lutz schmidt reuters part of the surprise was that christo who died on sunday aged 84 managed to realise so many of his grandiose projects at all.

The museum of contemporary art in chicago was the first public building in the usa wrapped by christo and jeanne claude. Christo and jeanne claude in 1976 were amoung the original board members of p s 1. Christo and the wrapped reichstag. An unrealized project wrapped building project for 1 times square depicts the plans for a massive installation in the heart of new york city one of christo s most ambitious proposals.