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Unrealized Work by Christo & Jeanne-Claude Will Take Over Gagosian

ARTnews.com·Andy Battaglia·28 days ago
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Skip to main content Home ARTnews News Unrealized Artwork by Christo and Jeanne-Claude Will Take Over Gagosian in London Scale model of Air Package on a Ceiling , 1968. Photo: Charles Roussel/©Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation/Courtesy Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation and Gagosian Gagosian gallery in London will present an artwork conceived by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1968 but never realized before the artists’ deaths—Jeanne-Claude in 2009 and Christo in 2020. The exhibition “Christo: Air,” opening May 21 and running through August 21, will feature rare works by Christo as well as Air Package on a Ceiling , a work that Christo and Jeanne-Claude planned for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia but never mounted due to technical limitations. Described in the gallery’s press release for the exhibition as a “vast, internally illuminated and suspended form,” the work will measure around 32 by 52 feet and hangs just over the heads of viewers in the gallery.…

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