{"id":14573,"date":"2020-06-03T01:53:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T01:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/christo-and-jeanne-claude-the-early-years\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T17:33:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:33:47","slug":"christo-and-jeanne-claude-the-early-years","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/christo-and-jeanne-claude-the-early-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Early Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the fall of 2020, Christo will  wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in silvery fabric for 16 days,  returning to his signature style &#8211; after realizing <em>The Floating Piers<\/em> in Italy, the <em>London Mastaba<\/em>,  and a quarter of a century after he and Jeanne-Claude wrapped the  Reichstag building in Berlin. As a prelude, a major exhibition at  PalaisPopulaire in the German capital will celebrate this 25-year  anniversary in the spring of 2020. At the same time, the Pompidou Center  will pay tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude by staging <em>The Pont Neuf Wrapped Documentary<\/em> exhibition as well as a comprehensive show highlighting their early years in Paris.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>To  accompany these events, Matthias Koddenberg, art historian and  long-time friend of both Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude, who was the  other half of the artistic duo until her death in 2009, has edited an  elaborate collection of interviews. The book is composed of many  conversations held between Koddenberg and Christo in the artist&#8217;s New  York studio over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>With rare frankness, Christo  describes how he fled from Bulgaria and made his way into the Western  world. 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