Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Würth Collection

Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:41

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA.-The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia presents Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Würth Collection organized by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, DC, USA. Look closely at the natural and constructed world around you; at the trees, rivers, buildings, objects, parks, bridges, islands. Look before Christo and Jeanne-Claude get their artistic hands on it. Now look again; at highlight, texture, movement, contrast, line, construction, at absence, at profound and continual transformation, at the range of reaction to that transformation, at the captivating art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Famous for their fabric installations involving urban and rural sites, Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created some of the most controversial and compelling public art works of the 20th century. On either an intimate or monumental scale, they disrupt what we see every day and offer us instead a pragmatic artistic experience which can be momentarily transcendental or outrageous depending on one's perspective. In February 2005, Christo and Jeanne-Claude completed their long anticipated gates project in New York's Central Park. The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is pleased to host The Trust for Museum Exhibitions' traveling survey of five decades of work by this incomparable artistic duo. The selection of more than 80 works includes early wrapped objects, a Store Front, a scale model of the Wrapped Reichstag, preparatory drawings, collages, and large scale photographs of completed projects such as: The Gates, Wrapped Coast, Valley Curtain, Running Fence, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Surrounded Islands, The Umbrellas, Japan-USA, Wrapped Reichstag, Wrapped Trees, and preparatory objects for works in progress such as Over the River.

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