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Christo exhibit opens in Bulgaria
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THE first ever exhibition of avant-garde artist Christo in his native Bulgaria opened in Sofia on Monday, giving rare insight into his spectacular wrapping projects.
Christo, 80, has not returned to Bulgaria since 1958 and settling in New York in 1964 with his wife and collaborator Jeanne-Claude, who passed away in 2009.
His ongoing projects kept him away from the opening of the exhibition in the Sofia City Art Gallery.
But the world famous artist — best known for wrapping in fabric the Reichstag in Berlin and Paris’s Pont Neuf bridge — arranged the presentation of his works personally, even if from afar, the gallery’s chief curator Maria Vasileva said.
The 133 prints and objects offer an overview of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s creative process down the years, covering many of their projects from the early 1960s.
Rows of black-and-white and color lithographs with collages of cloth samples, thread, masking tape, city maps and photographs showed some of the couple’s most famous projects, including the Reichstag and Pont Neuf.
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