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july 28, 2016 - De Primi Fine Art SA
De Primi Fine Art gallery is pleased to announce the retrospective exhibition of Christo and Jeanne-Claude
De Primi Fine Art gallery is pleased to announce the retrospective exhibition of #christo and #jeanneclaude from 16 September to 28 October 2016, presenting about 15 artworks, among the most representative of their projects .
The great and ambitious works of #christo and #jeanneclaude, their installations and their projects, were born in some way inspired by Man Ray’s masterpiece of 1920, L’enigme d’Isodore Ducasse – the first wrapping with a cover and some cord of an ordinary object (in this particular case a sewing machine) that history has memory of – and mainly teach us to re-learn to see, urging us to re-discover, to have new eyes. In ancient Greek, one of the most important words is « amazing», i.e. to be worthy of amazement, to be admirable. The philosopher, he who loves and seeks knowledge (sophia), is most of all a man who is amazed, a person who feels amazement (thauma, thaumazein) also as fear, dizziness, and disorientation. And looking, observing, means understanding. It is good to notice that still today, « I understand » can be expressed with I see. The vast installations and the variegated projects by #christo and #jeanneclaude – from the Air Package in Documenta in Kassel (1968) to the Mastaba (to be realized), from Valley Curtain (1970/72) to the present The Floating Piers on the Iseo Lake, from the Surrounded Islands (1980/83) to Over The River (to be realized), from The Umbrellas (1984/91) to The Gates (1979/2005) from Running Fence (1972/76) to Pont Neuf Wrapped (1975/85) and Wrapped Reichstag (1971/95) – were mainly conceived with the intention of hiding, completely or partially, or changing and decorating a place, a vast space, in order for it to be really seen, and understood again. Proust said that the real journey of discovery does not consist in looking for new landscapes but in having new eyes. Hiding or changing temporarily to give new light, new life and vision to what has been taken for granted. Covering, for a short period of time, a monument, a shape, a presence, or a place, and to then relish it again. The highest etymology of a mainly religious word is revelation: to reveal. Taking off and putting on a veil, a wall, a covering. It is no doubt that the two main parameters that qualify a work of art and its historical significance are its beauty and its originality. #christo and #jeanneclaude are great in beauty and generous in originality.
CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE
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Location: De Primi Fine Art SA, Piazza Cioccaro 2, 3rd floor, 6900 #lugano, Switzerland.
Opening: Thursday 15 September 2016, from 6 pm to 8 pm
Date: 16 September – 28 October 2016
Opening hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00-13:00 / 14:00-18:00. Saturday by appointment only.
www.deprimi.ch
CHR-56 Christo Wrapped Trees 71.1 x 55.8 cm plastic, twine, charcoal, gouache tape and photograph collage on paper mounted on paperboard 1969
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CHR-61 Christo over the river 21.5 x 28 cm collage, pen, enamel, photograph, wax pastel, fabric and map 2006
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CHR-68 Christo Surrounded Islands 1982 mixed media on paper 91.4x72.4cm
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CHR-71 Christo Pont Neuf Wrapped 1982 Mixed media 71x55+28cm
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