Today, Tuesday, May 31, marks the two-year anniversary of the death of the Bulgarian artistChristo Javachev, who died at the age of 84 at his home in New York.
Christo is considered the first in his field, as he created a new type of art known as “covering spaces with cloth”, and one of his most prominent works in this field is the wrapping of the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris with cloth in 1985.
Christo was born on June 13, 1935 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, and escaped from it in 1956 on a freight train, following being persecuted by the communist regime. In 1958, he met his French wife, Jean-Claude Donna de Giubon, in Paris, and he was residing in New York, where he obtained American citizenship.
Christo and his wife Jean-Claude have formed a prominent duo in the contemporary art community because of their multi-million dollar design and preparation, notable among their joint works, covering the coast of Little Bay in Sydney and the Reichstag building in Berlin.
It is noteworthy that Christo was preparing for a project to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in September 2020, but the project was then postponed for a year due to the Covid-19 epidemic, and Christo left life before implementing his project. And in September 2021, French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated the Arc de Triomphe in Paris with a silver-blue fabric, as Christo envisioned.