Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Barrels and The Mastaba 19582018

About Adam BlackbournPaul Goldberger

Paul Goldberger is the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic of The New Yorker where since 1997 he has written the Sky Line column and is the author of several books including Why Architecture Matters (2009) and Christo and Jeanne-Claude (2010 for TASCHEN). He lectures widely on architecture design historic preservation and cities and has taught at both Yale School of Architecture and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley. Christo and Jeanne-Claude began their collaboration in 1961 and lived in New York City since 1964. Jeanne-Claude died in 2009; Christo died in 2020. Their large-scale projects include Wrapped Coast Australia 196869; Valley Curtain Rifle Colorado 197072; Running Fence Sonoma and Marin Counties California 197276; Surrounded Islands Biscayne Bay Florida 198083; The Pont Neuf Wrapped Paris 197585; The Umbrellas JapanUSA 198491; Wrapped Reichstag Berlin 197195; Wrapped Trees Riehen Switzerland 199798; The Gates Central Park New York City 19792005; The Floating Piers Lake Iseo Italy 201416 The London Mastaba Serpentine Lake Hyde Park 201618 and L'Arc de Triomphe Wrapped Paris 19612021. Erin Bazos is a New Yorkbased graphic designer and creative director. Since 2010 she has worked with Christo on a variety of projects including website and exhibition design print collateral and multiple facets of The Floating Piers from the workers uniforms stationery and tourist maps to the project book in collaboration with TASCHEN. Lorenza Giovanelli art historian was the office manager of Christos last major project The Floating Piers in 2016. From 2017 to 2020 she worked for Christo in New York collaborating on several exhibitions and publications about Christo and Jeanne-Claudes art and continues to work for the Estate of the artists today. Wolfgang Volz has worked with Christo and Jeanne-Claude as the exclusive photographer of their works since 1971. He was also project director (with Roland Specker) for Wrapped Reichstag Berlin 197195 and (with Josy Kraft) for Wrapped Trees Riehen Switzerland 199798 and was in charge of The Wall 13000 Oil Barrels Gasometer Oberhausen Germany 199899 and Big Air Package Gasometer Oberhausen Germany 201013. His close collaboration has resulted in many books and more than 300 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world.