Picture "Orange Store Front, Project" (1991)
Picture "Orange Store Front, Project" (1991)
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limited, 100 copies | numbered | signed | lithograph with collage | framed | size 70 x 81 cm
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Picture "Orange Store Front, Project" (1991)
His move with his wife Jeanne-Claude from Paris to New York in 1964 marked a turning point in Christo's artistic work. As a result, new projects of much larger dimensions developed from the small-format showcases he had created previously. Christo found inspiration for this in the streets of Manhattan, in the architectural style of the buildings, and in the public spaces facing pedestrians - ranging from shops to galleries.
From his reflections on the concept of such spaces emerged the acclaimed series "Show Windows and Store Fronts". The design for the work "Orange Store Front", which he was to build for his solo exhibition at the Galleria del Leone in Venice, was captured by the artist in the form of this hand-signed limited edition colour lithograph. The collaged element made of brown wrapping paper testifies to Christo's innovative use of a wide variety of materials and his world-famous method of wrapping.
Colour lithograph with collage of fabric, wrapping paper, staples, acetate and galvanised iron, 1991. 100 copies, numbered and signed. Printed by Landfall Press, Chicago. Size in frame 70 x 81 cm as shown.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Christo
1935-2020
Christo achieved world fame by extraordinarily wrapping large landmarks and landscape elements in fabric.
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff was born 13 June 1935 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, to a son of an industrialist family. From 1953 to 1956, he studied at the Sofia Academy of Fine Arts and visited Prague in 1956. The following year, Christo attended the Vienna Fine Arts Academy. In 1958, he went to Paris where he first began to wrap things – this was the beginning of the "wrapped objects".
Starting in 1961, Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) have caused a worldwide sensation with their spectacular wrapping projects. Especially the project "Wrapped Reichstag", which was planned from 1971, became an art event in 1995.
The work for the installation of the project "The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979–2005" began in 2005.
A total of 7,532 gates, each 4.87 m high and up to 5.48 m wide, were placed over a length of 37km all over the pathways in Central Park. The gates, made of saffron-coloured fabric floated down from the horizontal end of the steel gates to 2.13 m above the ground, creating a flowing, billowing incomparable spectacle. Only 16 days later the installation was set to close. But what remains is the memory of a lost landscape.
Christo strictly refused sponsorship from the public or private sector and insisted that the projects be realised only for a limited period. This leads to an extraordinary concept: Only the sale of the sketches, models, and drawings made the realisation of the installations possible, and only these documents ultimately bear witness to it. Therefore, a Christo is a work of art in its own right, but also a building block of something larger – and not least a testimony to the creative process.
Christo passed away in 2020.
An artwork in which the artist designs the motive using various materials such as pieces of paper, wallpapers, fabric scraps, wire gauze etc. This gives the work an extension into the third dimension.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy, among others.
Graphic artwork in the making of which the artist combines at least two graphic production techniques.