American conceptual artist Christo will celebrate his eightieth birthday

New York/Prague - Bulgarian-born artist who goes by his first name Christo, who will celebrate his eightieth birthday on June 13, is one of the most renowned conceptual artists of all time. Along with his wife Jeanne-Claude, who was born on the same day as he was, he became famous for wrapping buildings in fabrics. The two artists covered skyscrapers, parts of the Australian coastline, the Roman walls, living trees, and the Parisian bridge Pont Neuf with fabric.
Their wrapping of the Berlin Reichstag attracted tens of thousands of viewers in 1995. Over the following two weeks, an additional five million people from around the world came to see the building covered in 100,000 square meters of shiny foil. According to the artists, the purpose of the whole endeavor was to demonstrate the uniqueness of reality that fades away. The effort to draw attention to transience runs throughout the entire work of this artistic duo, which met in the late 1950s while studying in Paris.
However, the art of Jeanne-Claude, who passed away six years ago, and Christo was not limited to "wrapping." Over several decades, they placed 1,760 giant yellow umbrellas in nature near Los Angeles, built a fabric fence stretching 40 kilometers in California, and created floating pink skirts for eleven islands in Florida. Their joint work culminated with The Gates (2005) in New York. The year before last, Christo alone created the world's largest sculpture in Oberhausen - Wrapped Package Full of Air.