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1990Christo and Jeanne-Claude Christo
Download education notes (PDF 8pp) Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. Visit the Adobe website to download a free copy. There is an important difference between our works of art and the usual architecture and urban planning, we are our own sponsors and we pay for our works of art with our own money... Christo & Jeanne-Claude quoted in Christo and Jeanne-Claude Gasometer, Oberhausen 1999, Taschen, New York 1999 The effect of seeing their work, in the society of the spectacle, is to create a sense of collective intimacy, like being in a theatre audience but outside, or like experiencing a blackout in your suburb without the inconvenience. Peter Schjeldahl, ‘Gated’, New Yorker, 28 February 2005 |  When the exhibition Christo was shown in Australia in 1990, as part of their second Kaldor project, it was the largest retrospective exhibition of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s works to date and the first locally curated survey exhibition of a contemporary international artist in Australia. It opened at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney and travelled to the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth. A new work, Wrapped Vestibule, was also created for the exhibition in Sydney, with the columns, busts, floor and seat in the Art Gallery of NSW's entrance vestibule shrouded in cloth. Read more about Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Wrapped Vestibule 1990, shrouding the columns, busts, seat and floor of the Art Gallery of NSW entrance vestibule with fabric and rope. Photos: Wolfgang Volz © Christo 1990 | WORLD EVENTSHubble Space Telescope launched Gulf War begins following Iraqi invasion of Kuwait East and West Germany reunify Nelson Mandela freed after 27 years as a political prisoner in South Africa Michael Crichton publishes the novel Jurassic Park Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal for the World Wide Web Smoking on US domestic flights banned The Three Tenors perform during World Cup soccer finals Andreas Gursky starts taking his stockmarket-themed photographs High and low: modern art and popular culture exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York Art et publicité 1890–1990 exhibition held at Centre Pompidou, Paris Biennale of Sydney, The readymade boomerang, artistic director René Block 9th Kaldor project Christo and Jeanne-Claude create Wrapped Vestibule at the Art Gallery of NSW, which is presented with a survey exhibition Christo at the Gallery and at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | ||
