Christo Interviews, the
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Author: Hans Ulrich Obrist
A compact hardback book, 'The Christo Interviews' brings together a series of illustrated conversations between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Christo, the artist who is best known for the large-scale, site-specific environmental installations he created in collaboration with artistic partner and wife, Jeanne-Claude. Taking place between December 2012 and May 2020, the interviews provide insight into the individual minds of two of the art world’s most esteemed figures. Obrist describes these as ‘werksttat interviews’, meaning ‘a workshop or laboratory of words’ and taken together, they also reveal the progress of The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park (2016-18), Christo’s first major public outdoor work in the UK, which coincided with an exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries outlining Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 60-year history of working with oil barrels.The second collection of monographic interviews by Obrist to be published by HENI, following 'The Richter Interviews' (2023), this reading book is edited in close collaboration with the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation and is fully illustrated with images of finished works, drawings and archival photographs from throughout the duo’s long and successful career.
ISBN 9781912122813. HENI Publishing. hb. 216 pages. 80 ills. 21 x 13.5 cm.
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A compact hardback book, 'The Christo Interviews' brings together a series of illustrated conversations between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Christo, the artist who is best known for the large-scale, site-specific environmental installations he created in collaboration with artistic partner and wife, Jeanne-Claude. Taking place between December 2012 and May 2020, the interviews provide insight into the individual minds of two of the art world’s most esteemed figures. Obrist describes these as ‘werksttat interviews’, meaning ‘a workshop or laboratory of words’ and taken together, they also reveal the progress of The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park (2016-18), Christo’s first major public outdoor work in the UK, which coincided with an exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries outlining Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 60-year history of working with oil barrels.The second collection of monographic interviews by Obrist to be published by HENI, following 'The Richter Interviews' (2023), this reading book is edited in close collaboration with the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation and is fully illustrated with images of finished works, drawings and archival photographs from throughout the duo’s long and successful career.
ISBN 9781912122813. HENI Publishing. hb. 216 pages. 80 ills. 21 x 13.5 cm.
available