#runningfence

[asteticas]

CHRISTO + JEANNE-CLAUDE — RUNNING FENCE, 1972-1976. (AT MARIN-SANOMA COUNTY)


[silkenme]

Christo and Jeanne-Claude⁠ Running Fence, California, 1976 – Photo by Wolfgang Volz.⁠ ⁠ Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations, often significant landmarks and landscape elements wrapped in fabric, including the Wrapped Reichstag, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Running Fence in California, and The Gates in New York City's Central Park.⁠ ⁠ #ChristoandJeanneClaude #runningfence #california #chistojeanne #landart #installations #landinstallations #silken #silkenme #silkenmeinspo #inspo #inspiration #modernart #wrappediconiclandmark https://www.instagram.com/p/CkIfA_8sUPU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[studioahead]

Running Fence: Northern California Legacy

For two weeks in September 1976, a veiled fence extended for nearly 25 miles along the Sonoma countryside. Depending on the time of day, the white fabric stood dark against darker hills, or lit up in the sun, or took on the earthy hues of its surroundings. The fence marked no border but itself. It looked maybe like a line of ships or a caravan of sheep—locals couldn't agree. There was no consensus on what it meant to be on one side of the fence or the other, although people did take sides. Its scale suggested the work of an alien species. The alien species was Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and the work was Running Fence.

In the Maysles documentary of the same name, you can see the fence billow peacefully in the breeze. In contrast, construction was a loud and hectic process. Christo and Jeanne-Claude had conceived the project four years prior. But because the fence ran through public and private lands, a complicated series of public hearings and beaureacratic sign-offs had to take place. Many locals were against the idea; at one point, Marin County nixed the plan.

At Studio AHEAD we try to live art by designing spaces to be lived in. What impresses us most about Running Fence is not the fence itself, nor its otherworldliness or beauty or contentness to stretch across a portion of land we love. What impresses us is that the work essentially forced a bunch of strangers to gather in public and discuss what is and isn't art. To think about fabric and space and dimension. The public's response ranged from the purely positive to "What kind of art is that, hanging a piece of rag up for 50 miles? I can hang a rag up! I bet [Christo] can't even paint a picture!"

Christo and Jeanne-Claude were used to controversy and setbacks. Their previous work, Valley Curtain, which stretched between two mountains in Colorado, took over two years to complete but lasted 28 hours before the wind tore it open. The impermanence was the point. "It's like our lives," Christo said. Nothing of Running Fence remains on the hillsides. It is remembered on film, a plaque somewhere in Sonoma, and by whatever contours it left in the seawind that is now free to move freely over the hills. "Look how it describes the wind" is how the fence was once described. The wind in turn describes at least one idea of what art is: being touched by a sudden shift of the invisible.

[reflections-in-t]

. . Ferewell Christo！ . クリストが亡くなった。 . 1960年代の後半、河原温と同様にコンセプチュアル・アートとは何かということを僕に教えてくれたクリスト。 . 彼はいくつかの初期作品によって日本では［梱包芸術家］と呼ばれていたけれど、その作品群や活動からは鑑賞者の既成概念をことごとく覆す新たな世界観を提示。やがて唯一無二のコンテンポラリー・アーティストとしての立場を確かなものに。 . 彼の登場は、ヨーゼフ・ボイスをはじめとする多数の作家が参加して起ち上げられた［Fluxus／フルクサス］と同じほどのインパクトをアートシーンに与え、パートナーであり妻でもあったジャンヌ＝クロードとともに想像を絶するような巨大で広範囲なランド・アートプロジェクトを多数手がけ、不世出の存在に。 2009年に他界したジャンヌ＝クロードのもとへと旅立ったクリスト。 . 長さ2Kmにおよぶ海岸を丸ごと梱包した「海岸の梱包」や「梱包されたポン・ヌフ」、「梱包されたライヒスターク（議会議事堂）」、「囲まれた島」、そして未完の凱旋門など… . 奇想天外なアイデアを具現化し、それを表現活動（作品）にまで昇華してしまえる才気あふれるこんな類稀な芸術家は、後にも先にも彼らだけ。 . たくさんの驚きと楽しさをありがとうChristoとジャンヌ＝クロード。 ご冥福を。 . . #Christo #JeanneClaude #RIP #RunningFence #TheGates #TheFloatingPiers #梱包 #囲まれた島 #梱包された木々 #アンブレラproject #梱包されたPontNeuf #河原温 #OnKawara . . https://www.instagram.com/p/CBDrHrql5fT/?igshid=1e8xr9m0pbh4q

[eyemonger-blog]

#closecall chasin #runningfence (at Dillions Beach)

[eyemonger-blog]

today we remember christo and jean-claude as we chase the #runningfence. just imagining it is enough. your work lives on (at Bodega Bay)