The conceptual artist Christo died this week at the age of 84. He was famous for erecting enourmous temporary exhibits where he'd wrap or drape or insert huge canvasses or objects around man-made structures like buildings or bridges or natural wonders like islands or sea coasts and give them an entire new dimensionality, a new way of looking at them, that had never existed before.
Along with his longterm partner Jeane-Claude, Christo's career spaneed decades and continents.
In NYC, Christo is best remembered for The Gate, his huge early 2005 projects where he took over Central Park, all three miles of it, and erected pale orange "gates" up and down the paths of the city's most popular park. The exhibit was a sensation, a truly memorable and amazing thing to behold (I remember it well) and I blogged about it on The Gates 10th Anniversary in 2015.
RIP.
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