Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Barrels and The Mastaba 1958-2018

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This year, London will host Christo and Jeanne-Claude's newest installation a spectacular 20-meter-high temporary sculpture made of more than 7,500 multicolored barrels, which will coincide with a major exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries, London. Gathering photography, sketches, models, and designs, this definitive collection is your guide to Christo and Jeanne- Claude's barrel-made installations

Paul Goldberger is the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic of The New Yorker, where, since 1997, he has written the "Sky Line" column, and is the author of several books, including Why Architecture Matters (2009) and Christo and Jeanne-Claude (2010, for TASCHEN). He lectures widely on architecture, design, historic preservation and cities, and has taught at both Yale School of Architecture and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Adam Blackbourn has been a member of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's working family since 2006. In addition to his work as an artist and writer, he and his partner Ruei Ji run the Chinese-to-English translation studio Bacon Translations. He has collaborated on numerous publications about Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the curator of the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show "World Soup" (The Kitchen Show) in 1991, he has curated more than 300 shows. Lorenza Giovanelli, art historian, was the office manager of Christo's last major project The Floating Piers in 2016. From 2017 to 2020 she worked for Christo in New York, collaborating on several exhibitions and publications about Christo and Jeanne-Claude's art, and continues to work for the Estate of the artists today. Erin Bazos is a New York-based graphic designer and creative director. Since 2010, she has worked with Christo on a variety of projects, including website and exhibition design, print collateral, and multiple facets of The Floating Piers, from the workers' uniforms, stationery and tourist maps to the project book in collaboration with TASCHEN. Wolfgang Volz has worked with Christo and Jeanne-Claude as the exclusive photographer of their works since 1971. He was also project director (with Roland Specker) for Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95 and (with Josy Kraft) for Wrapped Trees, Riehen, Switzerland, 1997-98, and was in charge of The Wall - 13,000 Oil Barrels, Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany, 1998-99 and Big Air Package, Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany, 2010-13. His close collaboration has resulted in many books and more than 300 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world.