Christo Offset Lithograph Big Air Package ~ A 2012-13 Signed 23.3 x 16.5 inches

Description: DescriptionChristoBig Air Package ~ A Offset lithograph based on drawings for Christo's latest work (indoor installation), The Big Air Pakage, which opened last mid-March at Gasometer, an exhibition space in Oberhausen, Germany. Built in a huge cylindrical gas tank built in the early 20th century and now used as an exhibition space, the work is a giant air package, or balloon, 90 meters high and 50 meters in diameter, held upright by the pressure of continuously pumped air.The package is stitched and roped together in a precise pattern according to Christo's instructions, and visitors can not only view it from above, but also enter through an airlocked entrance at the bottom of the air package to enjoy the immense, almost mystical beauty of the interior space.(The artwork in B depicts a scene from this interior.) SignedEdition: Open editionYear of creation: 2012-13Size：23.3 x 16.5 inchesAcrylic box ProfileBorn in 1935 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria No one would argue that the Bulgarian-born American artist Christo is one of the most prolific creative artists of the late 20th century and beyond.Christo and his public and private partner, Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009), have created works that have covered 100,000 square meters of Australian coastline with fabric, erected a total of 3,100 giant umbrellas (6 meters high and 8.66 meters in diameter) in Ibaraki and California, and constructed a total of 3,100 umbrellas in Paris, France. The Pont Neuf Bridge over the Seine in Paris and the German Reichstag in Berlin were covered with cloth and rope, and 7,503 gates with saffron-colored cloth hanging down were installed in New York's Central Park.Born in Bulgaria in 1935, Kurisuto fled communist Bulgaria while attending art school in Sofia, and lived in Prague, Vienna, and Geneva before defecting to Paris in 1958.Starting with cans wrapped in canvas, which he created while in Geneva, he began to work with magazines, furniture, automobiles, and other items wrapped in mysterious packaging, and in parallel, he began to create works composed of piles of used oil drums.In the early 1960s, he began working outdoors with Jeanne-Claude, whom he met shortly after leaving for Paris.After “Wharf Package” and “Piled Drums” at the Cologne docks in the summer of 1961 and “Wall of Drums, Iron Curtain” created guerrilla-style in Paris the following year, they have realized projects in the U.S., European countries, and Japan.The most distinctive feature of their projects is that they are all realized in public spaces for a short period of time, approximately two weeks.For a work that exists for only a few weeks, they have spent more than 25 years in some cases to obtain permission from public agencies and landowners.It is also their policy to raise the production costs, which can run into the billions of yen, entirely with their own hands, without relying on donations or subsidies.The funds come from Christo's drawings, objects, and prints.After Jeanne-Claude's sudden death in the fall of 2009, Christo continued to work on two projects: “Over the River,” a project on the Arkansas River in Colorado, in which he will stretch 9.5 kilometers of fabric horizontally across a 68-kilometer section of the river flowing through the Rocky Mountains, and “The Masters,” a project in which he will pile 410,000 oil drums in the desert to create a giant structure. Mastaba, a project in the United Arab Emirates, in which 410,000 drums will be piled up to form a giant structure in the desert.Contact usIf you have any questions, comments, or product requests, you can always contact us via eBay message.I will do my best to support you. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us. We want you to be completely satisfied with your purchase. ShippingWe use FedEx and Japan Post for our shipments, and usually arrive within 3 to 10 days after shipment.*Except for irregular situations such as weather and customs troubles International Buyers - Please Note: Import duties, taxes, and fees are not included in the price or shipping charges. These charges are the responsibility of the buyer. Please check with your country's customs office about how much these additional costs will be before you price or purchase.

Price: 1786 USD

Location: JAPAN

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