Christo (b. 1935)

“Christo’s works escape the closed world of art. If his drawings and books assure, in traditional fashion, the dissemination of his images and ideas within artistic circles, each of his realizations is, in its own particular place, a point of departure for a remembrance, a history a story. From Little Bay to Miami, from Paris to Colorado, from Milan to Abu Dhabi, everywhere the events occurred they have become parts of the local memory, perpetrating themselves as narrative.”

Dominique G. Laporte, Christo, Pantheon Books, New York, 1985, p. 71.