Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art Duo (1995) [N/A]
Featuring:
Alfred Biolek, Christo, Peter Conradi
Directed by:
Michael Blackwood
Release Date:
December 31, 1995
Original Title:
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: A Environmental Art Duo
Genres:
Documentary
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 58
Beginning with their small wrapped objects of 1958, this portrait examines the continuously bold and ambitious artistic ventures of the enigmatic duo, CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE. Though their large scale environmental projects, such as Running Fence and Wrapped Coast, are often met with distress and concern from the surrounding community, perceptions of the project are likely to shift when it comes time to interact with the grand, finished piece. Neither permanent nor purchasable, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s works exude the essence of freedom and exist only for the sake of existing.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude met in Paris in 1958 and so began an extraordinary adventure in art, a series of spectacular public art works in many parts of the world that reached its climax in February, 2005 with the opening of "The Gates" in New York's Central Park after more than 20 years of negotiation and struggle. In this portrait, the indefatigable duo reviews all their main projects since 1958 beginning with their small wrapped objects. Major emphasis is placed on their decades long effort to obtain permission for the "Wrapped Reichstag" project - a landmark event in the history of both art and politics.
