Javacheff Christo - packing the Arc de Triomphe in Paris

Javacheff Christo, exponent before the Nouveau Réalisme and later of Land Art, returns to Paris, his first artistic destination, for an important and complete retrospective at the Pompidou Centre from March 18th to June 15th. Javacheff Christo will then pack the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs Elysées. This is a 1962 project that is now finally coming to fruition. Like all Javacheff Christo installations, this one is self-funded with the sale of sketches, preparatory studies and multiples. This packing will be on sixteen days, from September 19 to October 4. This is the delayed date, compared to the initial intentions of Javacheff Christo, to allow the end of the nesting of hawks who are habitual tenants of this monument. This work follows the triumphant one of The floating piers that Javacheff Christo made on Lake Iseo in the summer of 2016 with huge influx of peoples. Over the years many works of Javacheff Christo have passed through our gallery, and although there has been only one fleeting knowledge, he has appreciated our work by also asking us about some works circulating in Italy. Later, with autographed participation, he invited us to the funeral of his wife that took place about a month after his death.

On our website, at https://www.galleriaincontro.it/en/opere-artisti you will still find a work for sale by Javacheff Christo. For those who want to delve deeper you will also find a short biography.

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