03 June 2020

Fabric: How An Artist Uses A 3-Dimesional Medium

"For Christo, the process of negotiating his way to an eventual win—no matter how long it took or how many times he was initially rejected—became its own affirmation of artistic freedom. And the same process of bureaucratic delay changed the context of the works in ways he found irresistible . . ."

Christo Found Beauty in Realizing the Impossible

Christo and Jeanne-Claude looking for a possible site for The Mastaba for the United Arab Emirates in February 1982WOLFGANG VOLZ
It takes a truly unique eye to see beauty in bureaucracy, to look at a snarl of planning regulations and NIMBYism and red tape and to convert it, through sheer imaginative alchemy, into art itself. And yet that quality is exactly what defined the work of Christo, who died on Sunday at the age of 84, and his partner, Jeanne-Claude, over the course of a 60-year career. . . 
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