The Christo Interviews / Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Obrist, Hans Ulrich, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christo, 1935-2020--Interviews.

Christo.

Jeanne-Claude, 1935-2009.

Jeanne-Claude.

Site-specific art.

Artist couples--United States.

Artist couples.

Art, Modern--20th century--Themes, motives.

Art, Modern.

Art, Modern--21st century--Themes, motives.

site-specific works.

Genre:

interviews.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : HENI Publishing, [2024]

Summary:

The Christo Interviews brings together a series of conversations between the artist, who is best known for the large-scale, site-specific environmental installations he created in collaboration with artistic partner and wife, Jeanne-Claude, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the pre-eminent commentator on and curator of contemporary art. Taking place between December 2012 and May 2020, the interviews provide insight into the individual minds of two of the art world's most esteemed figures, while also tracking the unfolding of their entire working relationship. Hans Ulrich describes these as "werksttat interviews", meaning "a workshop or laboratory of words" and taken together, they also reveal the progress of The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park (2016-18), Christo's first major public outdoor work in the UK, which coincided with an exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries outlining Christo and Jeanne Claude's 60-year history of working with oil barrels. Fully illustrated with images of finished works, drawings and documentary photographs from throughout Christo and Jeanne-Claude's long and successful career, this hardback reading book features previously unpublished material and the final conversation in the book was Christo's last ever interview, recorded shortly before his passing.

Contents:

Preface: Werkstatt interviews

Our incredible and continuous interest in the real world (December 2012)

Freedom is the rule (July 2016)

All the projects have opposition (August 2016)

We'd love to make people walk on water (October 2016)

In transition - Objects about to go somewhere else (December 2017)

We have a special public - Like groupies (2018)

All my energy is for the future (August 2018)

We're always taking a risk (September 2018)

There are many, many things connected in our life (December 2018)

I am still l'Étranger (May 2020).

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

1912122812

9781912122813

OCLC:

1431033508