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Collected interviews with the artist known for his monumental and site-specific environmental installation, held during his final years of lifeThis volume gathers a series of conversations between Christo (1935-2020) and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, occurring between December 2012 and May 2020. They track the progress of
The London Mastaba (2016-18), Christo's first major public outdoor work in the UK, which coincided with an exhibition at Serpentine Galleries outlining Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 60-year history of working with oil barrels. Illustrated with images of finished works, drawings and documentary photographs from throughout Christo and Jeanne-Claude's long and successful career, this hardback reader features previously unpublished material; the final conversation in the book was Christo's last ever interview, recorded shortly before his death.
Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) is artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. He is the creator of
The Interview Project, in which he holds lengthy and revealing conversations with artists.
About the author
Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968) is a world-renowned curator and the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. Alongside his curatorial practice, Obrist has written extensively on and around contemporary art, with a particular interest in the interview format.
Christo (Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, 1935–2020) was an American-Bulgarian artist best known for his monumental site-specific public art projects. Studying under the Communist regime during the 1950s at the Sofia National Academy of Art, Christo escaped to the West through Prague, Vienna and Geneva. In 1958 he arrived in Paris where he met Jeanne-Claude (Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, 1935–2009), who became his wife and lifelong artistic collaborator. In 1964, the artist couple moved to New York where they lived and worked together all their lives.
