Fafa Fine Art Gallery

Javacheff Christo
1935 Gabronovo, Bulgaria
Before moving to live in Paris in
1958, Javacheff Christo studied in
Sofia, Prague and Vienna. In Paris,
where he married Jeanne-Claude
de Guillebon in 1962 and with
whom he shared all his great projects
from 1961, his first works consisted
of covering with canvas and
rope objects of everyday use, such
as bottles, chairs and boxes, an idea
which brought him to the group of
the Nouveaux Réalistes.
Quite soon, however, his projects
took on a monumental scale: from
the barrier of bins wrapped up
along a street in Paris, he passed to
wrapping up buildings and parts of
landscapes. “Valley Curtain” was a
project which took place in 1970-
72 in a valley in Colorado, USA and
which basically consisted of a large
canvas stretched from one side to
the other of the valley sides (111 x
381 metres) and even caused some
changes in the micro climate of the
place.
Christo and his wife self-produce
their projects on the area, commercialising
drawings and studies of
the installation to finance the projects
to be done.
Their grand works of land art become
spectacular ephemeral sceneries
for just a few days, but their
memory also forms part of the environmental
piece of art.
AEGENA TEMPLE PROJECT
FOR “DIE GLYPOTEK”,
München, 1988
Photo - Collage and Serigraphy on paper
895mm by 685mm
Copy number 256/300. Signed.
Bibliography: Schellmann/Benecke 135