Word: christos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Onlookers are not always sure whether what they see is in fact either caustic or witty, and whether they ought to laugh or snarl. Claes Oldenburg dug a grave and refilled it, calling it "an underground sculpture." Paul Thek displayed a lifelike sculpture of himself as a cadaver. Christo Javacheff, 33, a be spectacled Bulgarian-born artist, expresses his wit by wrapping things-earth, hay, nudes, wheelbarrows and bottles...
...Christo-he never uses his surname-knows how to muffle a rampant motorcycle so that it acquires the petrified dynamism of a stuffed buffalo or a blind folded rhinoceros. He can embalm a slender sapling so that it lies with the mute pathos of Pearl White bound and gagged on the railroad track. His current winding sheet in Chicago enfolds a cadaver so Brobdingnagian that even the man in the street has been confronted by the undertaking...
Bulky Bundle. The man in Ontario Street in Chicago, that is. With the aid of half-a-dozen assistants, 10,000 sq. ft. of dark brown canvas and 4,000 ft. of manila rope, Christo has turned Chicago's chunky Museum of Contemporary Art into an imposing if somewhat minimal-looking bundle. It is part of a five-week-long display of his talents, with packaged furniture and pictures shown indoors...
...Where are you going to put the stamps?" guffawed a passing postal clerk. "When do they pick it up?" gibed a construction stiff. Museum Director Jan van der Marck was undismayed. Christo's wrapping, he explains, underlines the fact that "a museum is already a wrapping of sorts. You wrap into a museum all the arts worth preserving and presenting...
Conceptual art has become a favorite with avant-garde collectors. Kosuth's photographic version of real has already been bought by Businessman-Collector John Powers. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week put on view ten scale models, sketches and photomontages by the Bulgarian-born artist Christo, who set out to show what the museum would look like if its building were wrapped in canvas and tied up with rope. Museum Curator William S. Rubin found Christo's ideas, with or without the rope to hang them by, a "poetic" comment on packaging, which has "become...