CHRISTO and JEANNE-CLAUDE    

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1935 Born - Christo: American, Bulgarian born Christo Javacheff, June 13, Gabrovo, of an industrialist family.

Born - Jeanne-Claude: American, French born Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, June 13, Casablanca, of a French military family, educated in France and Switzerland.

1952 Jeanne-Claude. Baccalaureat in Latin and Philosophy, University of Tunis.

1953-56 Christo: Studies at Fine Arts Academy, Sofia. 1956, arrival in Prague.

1957 Christo studies one semester at the Vienna Fine Arts Academy.

1958 Christo arrives in Paris where he meets Jeanne-Claude. Packages and “Wrapped Objects"

1960 Birth of their son, Cyril, May 11. poet and writer.

1961 “Project for the Wrapping of a Public Building".

"Stacked Oil Barrels” and "Dockside Packages" at Cologne Harbor, their first collaboration.

1962 "Iron Curtain-Wall of Oil Barrels, Rue Visconti, Paris, 1961-62”.

"Stacked Oil Barrels", Gentilly, near Paris. “Wrapping a Woman”, London. 1963 "Showcases".

1964 Establishment of permanent residence in New York City. "Store Fronts" and “Show Windows”.

1966 "Air Package" and "'Wrapped Tree", Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland.

"42,390 Cubicfeet Package" at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis School of Art.

1968 “Wrapped Fountain" and "Wrapped Medieval Tower", Spoleto.

Wrapping of a public building "Wrapped Kunsthalle Berne, 1967-68”.

"5,600 Cubicmeter Package, Documenta 4, Kassel” an Air Package 280 feet high, foundations arranged in a 900 foot diameter circle. "Corridor Store Front", total area: 1,500 sq. ft.

"1,240 Oil Barrels Mastaba", and "Two Tons of Stacked Hay", I.C.A., Philadelphia.

1969 "Wrapped Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago”, 10,000 square feet of tarpaulin.

"Wrapped Floor and Stairway", 2,800 square feet drop cloths, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

"Wrapped Coast, Little Bay, One Million Square Feet, Sydney, Australia”, 90,000 square meters (One million square feet) Erosion Control fabric and 36 miles of ropes.

Project for stacked Oil Barrels "Houston Mastaba, Texas", 1,249,000 barrels.

Project for "Closed Highway".

1970 Wrapped Monuments, Milano: “Monument to Vittorio Emanuele, Piazza del Duomo; Monument to Leonardo da Vinci, Piazza della Scala”.

1971 "Wrapped Floors, Covered Windows and Wrapped Walk Ways", Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany.

1972 "Valley Curtain, Grand Hogback, Rifle, Colorado, 1970-72”, width: 1,250-1,368 feet, height: 185-365 feet, 142,000 square feet of nylon polyamide, 110,000 lbs. of steel cables, 800 tons of concrete.

1974 "The Wall, Wrapped Roman Wall, Via V. Veneto and Villa Borghese, Rome".

"Ocean Front, Newport, Rhode Island" 150,000 square feet of floating polypropylene fabric over the ocean.

1976 "Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-76”, 18 feet high, 24-1/2 miles long, 240,000 square yards of woven nylon fabric, 90 miles of steel cables, 2,050 steel poles (each: 3-1/2 inch diameter, 21 feet long).

1977 "The Mastaba, Project for the United Arab Emirates” in progress.

1978 "Wrapped Walk Ways, Loose Park, Kansas City, Missouri, 1977-78". 15,000 square yards of woven nylon fabric over 2.8 miles of walkways.

1983 "Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83”. 6.5 million square feet pink woven polypropylene floating fabric.

1984 "Wrapped Floors and Stairways and Covered Windows", Architecture Museum, Basel, Switzerland.

1985 "The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Paris, 1975-85”, 454,178 sq. ft. of woven polyamide fabric, 42,900 feet of rope.

1991 "The Umbrellas, Japan-U.S.A., 1984-91”, 1,340 blue umbrellas in Ibaraki, Japan;

1,760 yellow umbrellas in California, USA. Each: height: 19 ft. 8 in., diameter: 28 ft. 6 in.

1992 “Over The River, Project for The Arkansas River, Colorado” in progress.

1995 “Wrapped Floors and Stairways and Covered Windows” Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany.

"Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95”, 100,000 sq.meters (1,076,000 sq.ft.) of polypropylene fabric, 15,600 meters (51,181 feet) of rope and 200 metric tons of steel.

1998 “Wrapped Trees, Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen-Basel, Switzerland 1997-98”. 178 trees, 53,283 square meters (592,034 square feet) of woven polyester fabric, 23 km. (14.3 miles) of rope.

1999 “The Wall, 13,000 Oil Barrels, Gasometer, Oberhausen, Germany”, an indoor installation.

2005 "The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005”, 7,503 vinyl gates, with free-flowing nylon fabric panels, anchored to 15,006 steel bases on 37 kilometers (twenty-three miles) of walkways.