2020년 5월 31일,Christo로 더잘 알려진 작가Christo Vladimirov Javacheff는 84세의 나이로 뉴욕시에 있는 그의 집에서 세상을 떠났다.
Christo는 그의 아내이자 파트너인 Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon과 함께 수십년 동안 독일제국 건물을 직물로 감싸고,
뉴욕 센트럴 파크의 통로에 수천개의 다채로운 문을 배치하고, 플로리다에 떠있는 직물로 섬 전체를 둘러싸고 있는 거대한 규모로
전 세계의 환경 예술작품을 기획하고 건축했다.
크리스토와 장 클로드가 일생 동안 제작한 일부 설치물의 이미지.
The artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, better known as Christo, poses for a photograph as he unveils his artwork, The Mastaba on Serpentine lake in Hyde Park in London on June 18, 2018.
Artist Christo Javacheff's six-ton $700,000 curtain billows across Rifle Gap in Colorado in 1972. State officials gave permission for it to hang for one month, but canyon winds tore it to shreds within 24 hours.
An environmental work of art titled Surrounded Islands, by Christo, is in the process of being installed in Miami, Florida, in May of 1983
Christo works at his Surrounded Islands in Miami in 1983.
An aerial view of one of the Surrounded Islands in May of 1983.
The Pont-Neuf, oldest bridge in Paris, is illuminated by street lights in 1985 after being wrapped in 40,000 square meters of shiny nylon cloth by the artist Christo.
Local public school children make their way down a footpath through rice fields and blue umbrellas in Sato River Valley, north of Tokyo, on October 9, 1991.
Artists Christo, left, and Jeanne-Claude, right, pose in front of an image of The Umbrellas as they visit their exhibition Swiss Projects 1968-1998 at the Center PasquArt in Biel, Switzerland, on August 27, 2004.
An aerial view shows Christo's Wrapped Reichstag, covered with silver polypropylene fabric, on June 24, 1995.
Workers on Christo's team wrap the German Reichstag behind the Quadriga statue on top of the Brandenburg Gate.
Thousands of visitors view the wrapped German Reichstag on June 25, 1995.
The wrapped German Reichstag is reflected in the river Spree on June 28, 1995.
Visitors walk among wrapped trees in Riehen, Switzerland, on December 13, 1998, admiring for the last time the work of environmentalist artists Christo and Jean Claude.
An assistant puts final touches on one of 163 trees wrapped in the park of the museum of the Beyeler Foundation in Riehen near Basel, on November 18, 1998.
Christo's exhibition The Wall, inside the Oberhausen gasometer is well-attended on October 22, 1999, three days before the gates closed.
The Gates art installation, created by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, lines a snow-covered bridge in New York's Central Park, on February 21, 2005.
The Gates, wind through the southeastern corner of Central Park on the art installation's opening day, February 12, 2005, in New York City.
An aerial view of part of The Gates in Central Park on February 11, 2005.
Chris Hoeffel of Newtown, Connecticut, cross-country skies under The Gates, after a winter storm left four inches of snow in Central Park on February 21, 2005.
Visitors walk around inside the installation Big Air Package during the unveiling at the Gasometer in Oberhausen, Germany, on March 15, 2013.In this picture taken March 13, 2013 Christo looks up toward the top of Big Air Package at the Gasometer in Oberhausen, Germany, on March 13, 2013.People crowd the installation The Floating Piers on Lake Iseo on the installation's final weekend, near Sulzano, northern Italy, on July 2, 2016.Part of The Floating Piers installation flows through the village of Sulzano, on June 28, 2016.Christo attends the presentation of The Floating Piers on June 16, 2016.People visit The Floating Piers at night, on Lake Iseo, on June 21, 2016.Aerial view of part of the installation The Floating Piers, photographed on June 28, 2016.Work takes place on a sculpture made of oil barrels titled The London Mastaba, being constructed by artist Christo, in Hyde Park in London, on June 11, 2018.Swimmers exercise in the Serpentine River in front of Christo's The London Mastaba, in London's Hyde Park on June 19, 2018.