2021
48.8566° N, 2.3522° E
L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped
My photographs of the Arc de Triomphe occasionally wrapped up in a 25,000 square meters of recyclable polypropylene fabric.
Here below an excerpt from Christo and Jeanne-Claude website on the land art installation.
“In 1961, three years after they met in Paris, Christo and Jeanne-Claude began creating works of art in public spaces. One of their projects was to wrap a public building. When he arrived in Paris, Christo rented a small room near the Arc de Triomphe and had been attracted by the monument ever since. In 1962, he made a photomontage of the Arc de Triomphe wrapped, seen from the Avenue Foch and, in 1988, a collage. 60 years later, the project was finally concretized.”
My photographs of the Arc de Triomphe occasionally wrapped up in a 25,000 square meters of recyclable polypropylene fabric.
Here below an excerpt from Christo and Jeanne-Claude website on the land art installation.
“In 1961, three years after they met in Paris, Christo and Jeanne-Claude began creating works of art in public spaces. One of their projects was to wrap a public building. When he arrived in Paris, Christo rented a small room near the Arc de Triomphe and had been attracted by the monument ever since. In 1962, he made a photomontage of the Arc de Triomphe wrapped, seen from the Avenue Foch and, in 1988, a collage. 60 years later, the project was finally concretized.”
