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Christo Announces The Gates, Central Park, New York

NEW YORK.- American/Bulgarian-born artist Christo (L) and his wife, American/French-born Jeanne-Claude (R) announce details of their collaborative project, "The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005", at a press conference, 22 November, 2004, in New York. The temporary work of art will consist of 7,500 gates with hanging saffron-colored fabric panels lining 23 miles of pedestrian paths in New York's Central Park and will be unfurled on 12 February, 2005.
On January 22, 2003 Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, announced that the city has given permission to New York artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to realize their temporary work of art:The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005.
The 7500 Gates, 16 feet (4.87 meters) high with a width varying from 5' 6" to 18 feet (1,67 m to 5,48 meters) will follow the edges of the walkways and will be perpendicular to the selected 23 miles of footpaths in Central Park. Free hanging saffron colored fabric panels suspended from the horizontal top part of the gates will come down to approximately 7 feet ( 2,13 meters) above the ground. The gates will be spaced at 12 foot (3,65 meter) intervals, except where low branches extend above the walkways allowing the synthetic woven panels to wave horizontally towards the next gate and be seen from far away through the leafless branches of the trees. The temporary work of art The Gates is scheduled for February 2005, to remain for 16 days, then the 7,500 Gates shall be removed and the materials will be recycled.
As Christo and Jeanne-Claude have always done for their previous projects, The Gates will be entirely financed by the artists through C.V.J. Corp, (Jeanne-Claude Javacheff, President) with the sale of studies, preparatory drawings and collages, scale models, earlier works of the fifties and sixties, and original lithographs on other subjects.
The artists do not accept sponsorship or donations.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude have donated the merchandising rights to the charitable foundation "NNYN" (Nurture New York's Nature and Arts) who are sharing these rights with The Central Park Conservancy.

Postato da: RLF a 15:19 | link | commenti (1)

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#1    25 Gennaio 2005 - 12:49

 

io questo proprio non lo capisco.
eppure non sono un cretino...
no...sono sghino e volevo dirti che l altra volta dicevo per scherzare comunque credo l' abbia capito .so solo che sei ilfratello di roberto e ti piacciono i fumetti...se vuoi il mio sito lo trovi sotto : alla casetta.
ciao

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