Christo Back at Bulgarian Home Town

Society | August 30, 2006, Wednesday // 00:00
Christo Back at Bulgarian Home Town

For the first time ever, Bulgaria-born conceptual artist Christo will make a symbolic return to his hometown of Gabrovo by a photo exhibition of his free art display "The Gates."

The exhibit entitled "The Saffron Gates: Central Park, New York" was photographed by Polish-American artist Sabina Szafrankowska.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude began wrapping New York Central Park at the beginning of last year and unveiled their USD 20 M art installation on February 12. More than 7,500 of the 16-foot-high gates, hung with panels of saffron-coloured orange fabric, were spread out over 23 miles of the park's paved paths for 16 days.

"The Gates" attracted 4 million visitors to Central Park and generated USD 254 M for the city economy.

Christo Yavashev was born in 1935 in Gabrovo, of a Bulgarian industrialist family. The artist was declared a honorary citizen of the town in 1997, but he failed to visit it and collect it.

Christo and his wife 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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