Guided Tour and Workshop at the Saatchi Gallery | Event

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Christo und Jeanne-Claude L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, Paris, 1961-2021

As part of the Saatchi’s Gallery Season of Sculpture, their co-headline Winter exhibition, Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Boundless will take a retrospective look at the career and achievements of artistic collaborators and life partners Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Boundless introduces visitors to the couple’s seminal projects, ranging from their early collaborations to monumental masterpieces, among them Wrapped Coast in Australia (1968/69), Surrounded Islands (1983) in Miami/Florida, The Pont Neuf Wrapped in Paris (1985), The Umbrellas (1991), installed simultaneously in Japan and the USA, The Gates in Central Park, New York City (2005) and The Floating Piers at Lake Iseo in Italy (2016).
It also includes the perspective of The Mastaba project in Abu Dhabi. This exhibition is the last to ever be signed off by Christo before his death and is divided into ten thematic chapters.
The exhibition reveals a story of love and artistic collaboration between Christo and Jeanne-Claude. It celebrates their synergy and profound connection, contextualised alongside their artistic contemporaries, including Jean Dubuffet, Yves Klein, and Lucio Fontana.
Boundless unveils a vivid narrative of passionate determination, highlighting the couple’s refusal to be confined by traditional norms and how this distinctive approach, fuelled their creative vision and shaped their artistic journey.

You are invited to a Special Workshop and tour at the Saatchi Gallery

Kensington Mums and littles ones are welcome to joins guided tour and Christo Collage workshop. Much of the exhibition will host their drawings and plans for their large scale well known installations.

This workshop is inspired by Christo and Jeanne Claude’s meticulous planning process, we will ask participants to use collage, drawing and stitching to erase and remove places and figures from various imagery, “wrapping” the contents and considering how this changes the image. In the workshop we will be covering and hiding pictures of monuments, and portraits through college, drawing in stitching inspired by Christo and Jeanne Claudes wider practice.

The workshop will be run by The Saatchi Gallery experienced Art Educators and we have limited spaces available. These sessions are adaptable for all ages and abilities and each child must be accompanies by an adult.

Date: 17th November 2023

Time: 4pm-6pm

Tickets: Complimentary for all Kensington Mums subscribers (emails will be verified).

Address: Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Road, London, SW3 4RY

Limited availability.

 

Register here

Image credit: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Covered triumphal arch, Paris, 1961-2021, Photo: Wolfgang Volz

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