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...predict that artworks of the future will be in size category of Chinese Wall, and may become one day just as beautiful. To me, Chinese Wall is greatest artwork ever created by mankind." Thus said Artist Christo Javacheff (professional name: Christo) in his dense Bulgarian accent, talking to a reporter in 1968. Last week this prediction was coming true-more or less-as Christo's latest project, Running Fence, moved toward completion on the coast of northern California. A shimmering construction of nylon slung between steel posts, Running Fence issues from the sea at Bodega Bay in Marin County...
Since 1972, when Christo conceived the project, it has cost him $2,250,000-raised by selling off his drawings and project studies to European collectors. A sixth of that sum went on fees to a battery of lawyers who, through 17 public hearings and three sessions of the California Supreme Court, won permission to construct the fence and defended it against suits brought by worried environmentalists, who derisively called it "a roll of toilet paper." There were bomb threats, and rigging trucks were vandalized. "If they tear it down immediately afterward, that's all right," declared the unfazed...
...small wiry man with an intense stare and a manic thirst for promotion, Christo, 41, is no stranger to large projects. He first came to the art world's attention in the late '50s and early '60s by swathing all manner of objects-chairs, trees, cars, women, motorcycles and, in 1968 at "Documenta" in Kassel, West Germany, a 280-ft. column of air-with rope, canvas and sheet plastic. If this all amounted to little more than a series of energetic variations on Man Ray's 1920 Enigma of Isidore Ducasse (a sewing machine wrapped...
...Artist Jim Rosenquist, one of the group of artists, museum curators and dealers who assembled to watch the installation. "It was a beautiful birth, all rosy mist and hidden sunlight," enthused the curator of Dartmouth's Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Jan van der Marck, a longtime collaborator of Christo's. "It can't be owned or rented or bought. The artist doesn't get any richer, but you do." But was it, a reporter asked, another Great Wall of China? Smiling, Christo revised his 1968 opinion. "No, it is not a Wall of China! China Great...
...place, everything is doubled, all of it together, half the sky of clouds came from the north until a great curve of cirrus broke off and wheeled an are beyond the moon and Orion through the whole east and far to open south the mountains of Sangre de Christo, in less than pain after sunset, are pearl and shadow pinon burned sage crushed and spread over skin under nose finally both pinon scruffy pine trees smelling like St. Peter's had a chance to visit Bishop Lamy's Romanesque cathedral and his private chapel, the quiet peace of the chapel...