Title
Wrapped Book Modern Art
1978
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Wrapped Modern Art Book
- Date
- 1978
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- polyethylene, twine, book
- Edition
- 71/120
- Dimensions
- 34.5 x 25.5 x 4.5 cm
- Signature & date
Signed l.l., black fibre-tipped pen ".../ Christo". Not dated.
- Credit
- John Kaldor Family Collection
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- L2012.229
- Copyright
- © Christo
- Artist information
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Christo
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About
The surrealist artist Man Ray was the first artist to wrap objects as a way of making them strange. Wrapping has the paradoxical effect of concealing an object while accentuating its larger geometry and heightening our curiosity about it, encouraging us to make an imaginative leap in order to interpret what we see or what lies beneath.
Christo began wrapping and packaging objects in the late 1950s. His early works made use of items from daily life – such as books and boxes – which he draped, folded and bound in fabric. Later he collaborated with his wife Jeanne-Claude to wrap entire buildings and environments. While visually the folds of fabric in their works refer to classical forms from art history, the process of wrapping relates more broadly to cultural practices of preserving, shrouding and concealing.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Plastic fantastic!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 24 May 1997–08 Aug 1997
40 years: Kaldor Public Art Projects, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Oct 2009–14 Feb 2010
John Kaldor Family Collection Artist Rooms #1 - Christo:
- Gosford Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Gosford 01 Feb 2013–01 Apr 2013
- Glasshouse Regional Gallery, New South Wales 04 Jul 2013–25 Aug 2013
- Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul 13 Sep 2013–01 Dec 2013
- Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre & Liverpool Regional Museum, Casula 09 Dec 2013–26 Jan 2014
Landmarks:
- Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, Katoomba 21 Jan 2017–19 Mar 2017
- Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth 09 Jun 2017–13 Aug 2017
- Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury 29 Sep 2017–26 Nov 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Anthony Bond OAM (Curator), Landmarks, Katoomba, 2017, 20.
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