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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...
...Christo Javacheff is a peripatetic Bulgarian whose art consists of wrapping things-big things. He has previously wrapped the Kunsthalle in Bern, a fountain in Spoleto and the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. For Christmas, he would like to wrap all the trees on the Champs Elysées, Paris permitting. Australia, however, can claim the distinction of having the first natural landscape to be wrapped...
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...
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