Christo returns to wrapping: will cover the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in 2020

Next year Christo (Christo Yavachev; Gabrovo, 1935) will return to amaze the world public with his packing, and to be covered, in 2020, will be theArc de Triomphe in Paris. The Bulgarian artist thus returns to Paris after he packed the Pont-Neuf in 1985. The action will take place from April 6 to 19, 2020: 25,000 square meters of recyclable silver fabric and 7,000 meters of red rope will be needed. In parallel with the event on the Arc de Triomphe, there will also be an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou that will open from March 18 to June 15, 2020, and will display drawings, documents, and materials related precisely to the packing of the Pont-Neuf. “The exhibition at the Centre Pompidou,” said the artist, “will reveal the historical context of the period during which we lived and worked in Paris”: the we, as always, refers to his wife Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (Casablanca, 1935 - New York, 2009), who although passed away ten years ago for the artist is always present (so much so that the projects are still signed “Christo and Jeanne-Claude,” which continues to be the name of the art project).

“Christo,” reads the official announcement circulated today by the artist’s studio, "in close collaboration with the Centre Pompidou and the Centre des monuments nationaux (CMN) will create a temporary work in Paris entitled The Arc de Triomphe Packaged (Project for Paris, Place de l’Étoile-Charles de Gaulle)." It is known that the cost of the operation will be entirely covered by private funding, and Christo has already let it be known that the resources will come, as usual, from the sale of preparatory studies, drawings, collages, models, and sketches. For the artist, this is a dream nurtured since the 1960s, when he and his wife imagined wrapping the Arc de Triomphe (and made a photomontage showing the monument covered): decades later, Christo will finally see his own project realized.

Pictured here is a rendering of the packed Arc de Triomphe.

Christo returns to wrapping: will cover the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in 2020

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