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Javacheff Christo
"Our projects use dimensions which usually do not belong to a sculpture."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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Notes of biography
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff was born in 1935 in Gabrovo (Bulgaria). He studied to the Art Institute of Sofia from 1952 till 1956. The artist settled down in Paris in 1958 and met Jeanne-Claude de Guillebon, born the same year as him. They got married and decided to make common work. Their first personal exhibition was organized in 1961. The same year, they create packings on Cologne’s seaport. Next year, in sign of protest against the Berlin Wall, they created in Paris (street Visconti) a huge gathering of oil and essence barrels which they piled. This was the beginning of thousand proposals, among them numerous creations, poetic and gigantic projects of packing which wanted to convey the short-lived as aesthetic dimension.
The couple settled down in New York in 1964 and both, Christo and Jeanne-Claude took the American nationality. They appropriated the space, draped, cut, colored monuments and landscapes, giving to the urban, rural or maritime chosen landscapes a new sculptural dimension (Valley Curtain, Running Fence, Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Pont-Neuf in Paris, Reichstag in Berlin, etc.).
Christo and Jeanne-Claude has the peculiarity to defend and build themselves their own projects .On the occasion of each of them, they did preparatory drawings, invented graphic works (lithographs and screenprints), collages, models and films, the sale of which financed the project itself. « The Gates », their last creation, was presented in New York at the beginning of year 2005. It was about a route of approximately 37 kilometers through Central Park, punctuated with 7 500 tense porticoes of tissue curtains colored-orange and saffron. Their next project is entitled « Over the river Arkansas »; it will be situated in the Colorado.
They live and work in New York.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« Complete editions, 1964-1982 », P. Hovdenakk, Ed. Schellmann & Kluser, Munich, 1982
*« Prints and objets 1963-1987 », J. Schellmann et J. Benecke, Ed. Schellmann, Munich-New York, 1988
*« Prints and objets 1963-1995 », J. Schellmann et J. Benecke, Ed. Schellmann, Munich-New York, 1995
*« Prints and objets 1963-2013 », J. Schellmann, Ed. Hatje Kantz, Ostfildern, Allemagne, 2013
Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Christo », D.G. Laporte, Flammmarion, 1985
- « Christo », R. Marrast et autres, Albin Michel, 1990
- « Christo et Jeanne-Claude », Taschen, Cologne, 1995
- « XTO + J.-C. », B. Chernov & W. Volz, Saint Martin’s Press, New York, 2002
- « Christo & Jeanne-Claude : Early works 1958-1969 », collectif, Ed. Taschen, 2003
- « Christo and Jeanne-Claude : The Gates », Ed. Taschen, 2005
- « Christo et Jeanne-Claude - en/hors atelier », M. Koddenberg, L'Arche Ed., 2015
- « Christo and Jeanne-Claude : The Floating piers », Ed. Taschen, 2016
- « Christo & Jeanne-Claude », collectif, in revue Connaissance des Arts, n°715, juin 2016
- « Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Barrels », DruckVerlag Kettler, 2016
To read from the artist :
- « Erreurs les plus fréquentes », Jeanne-Claude, Ed. Jannink, 1998
- « Conversation avec Christo et Jeanne-Claude », A.-F. Penders, Ed. Tandem, 2002
Website :
www.christojeanneclaude.netMore :
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Stamp by Javacheff Christo
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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Art movements
+ LAND ART / 1968- / Walter De Maria, Hamish Fulton, Michael Heizer, Richard Long, Andy Goldsworthy, Denis Oppenheim, etc.
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