1990

Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Wrapped Vestibule
Christo
12 September – 25 November 1990, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

Christo
2 March – 14 April 1991, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

40 years: Kaldor Public Art Projects exhibition notes Christo and Jeanne-Claude 1969/1990

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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

 Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Wrapped Vestibule 1990

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.

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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

 

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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