Christo & Jeanne-claude The Gates

1935 Christo: American, Bulgarian born Christo Javacheff, June 13, Gabrovo, of an industrialist family. Studies at Fine Arts Academies in Sofia and Vienna. Jeanne-Claude: American, French born Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, June 13, Casablanca, of a French military family, educated in France and Switzerland. 1958 Christo arrives in Paris and meets Jeanne-Claude. Packages and Wrapped Objects. 1960 Birth of their son, Cyril, May II, poet and writer. 1961 Project for the Wrapping of a Public Building. Stacked Oil Barrels and Dockside Packages at Cologne Harbor, their first collaboration. 1962 Iron Curtain - Wall of Oil Barrels blocking the Rue Visconti, Paris. 1964 Store Fronts. They establish their permanent residence in New York City. 1966 Air Package and Wrapped Tree, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 1968 Wrapped Fountain and Wrapped Medieval Tower, Spoleto, Italy. Wrapping of a public building Wrapped Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland. 5,600 Cubicmeter Package, Documenta 4, Kassel, Germany. 1969 Wrapped Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Wrapped Coast, One Million Square Feet, Little Bay, Sydney, Australia. 1970 Wrapped Monuments, Milan, Italy: Monument to Vittorio Emanuele, Piazza del Duomo and Monument to Leonardo da Vinci, Piazza della Scala. 1972 Valley Curtain, Grand Hogback, Rifle, Colorado, 1970-72. 1974 The Wall, Wrapped Roman Wall, Rome, Italy; Ocean Front, Newport, Rhode Island. 1976 Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-76. 1977 The Mastaba of Abu Dhabi, Project for the United Arab Emirates, in progress. 1978 Wrapped Walk Ways, Loose Park, Kansas City, Missouri, 1977-78. 1983 Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83. 1985 The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Paris, 1975-85. 1991 The Umbrellas, Japan-USA, 1984-91. 1992 Over The River, Project for the Arkansas River, Colorado, in progress. 1995 Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95. 1998 Wrapped Trees, Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen-Basel, Switzerland, 1997-98. 1999 The Wall, 13,000 Oil Barrels, Gasometer, Oberhausen, Germany. Indoor installation. 2005 The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005.Volz, Wolfgang is the author of 'Christo & Jeanne-claude The Gates' with ISBN 9783822842423 and ISBN 3822842427.