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Home | World | Arc De Triomphe Wrapped In Fabric

Arc de Triomphe wrapped in fabric

The artwork around the famous Parisian monument is the handiwork of an artist couple

By AP
Updated On - 06:48 PM, Fri - 17 September 21
Arc de Triomphe wrapped in fabric
The artwork around the famous Parisian monument is the handiwork of an artist couple
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Paris: The city of Paris is unveiling a monumental artwork built around an actual monument: the Arc the Triomphe completely wrapped in silver and blue fabric.
The installation is conceptualised by late artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who conceived of the project in 1961. Visits will take place for nearly almost three weeks. At weekends, the Arc de Triomphe’s traffic-heavy roundabout will only be opened for pedestrians.

Visitors to the famous Napoleonic arch, which dominates the Champs-Elysees Avenue, will not only be able to see the gleaming fabric, but also touch it — as the artists had intended.

Those climbing the 50 metres (164 feet) to the top will step on it when they reach the roof terrace.

France’s culture minister Roselyne Bachelot called the project entitled “Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped,” “a formidable gift offered to Parisians, the French and beyond, to all art lovers.” Noting the deaths of the artists with sadness, Bachelot added that it was “a posthumous testimony of artistic genius.”

Bulgarian-born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff met Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon in Paris in 1958 and they later became lovers. The idea for the artwork was born in the early ’60s, when they lived in Paris. Jeanne-Claude died in 2009, and Christo in May of last year. The monument was to be wrapped last fall, but the pandemic delayed it.

The 14 million-euro ($16.4 million) project is being financed through the sale of Christo’s preparatory studies, drawings, scale models, and other pieces of work.

The artists were known for elaborate, temporary creations that involved blanketing familiar public places with fabric, including Berlin’s Reichstag and Paris’ Pont Neuf bridge, and creating giant site-specific installations, such as a series of 7,503 gates in New York City’s Central Park and the 24.5-mile “Running Fence” in California.

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