Christo, Jeanne-Claude Eye Arkanzas River for Wrapping

Society | February 2, 2005, Wednesday // 00:00

Bulgaria-born artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude have decided to wrap the Arkanzas river in Colorado, the Guardian reads.

The avant-guard couple is determined to wait for years if needed to have their project fulfilled.

At the moment the tandem is awaiting the opening of their last work - "The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979 to 2005". The official opening will take place February 12, and will allow visitors to Central Park in New York to walk through 7,500 gates hung with panels of saffron-coloured fabric.

Christo, who is Bulgarian, and Jeanne-Claude, who is French, are known for their large-scale public art pieces. They surrounded 11 islands in Miami with pink woven fabric in 1982, wrapped silver fabric around the German Reichstag in 1995 and opened 3,100 umbrellas in Japan and California in 1991.

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