Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Floating Piers, 9783836547833
Paperback
Walk on water: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s breathtaking, ephemeral floating artwork.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Floating Piers

the floating piers

  • Paperback

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    12 September 2016

Summary

Walk on Water: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Floating Piers

From June 18 to July 3, 2016, thousands experienced the impossible: walking on water. Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Floating Piers transformed Lake Iseo, creating a temporary three-kilometer walkway connecting the mainland to the islands of Monte Isola and San Paolo.

The installation featured 70,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric atop a modular floating dock system of 220,000 high-density polyethylene…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9783836547833
ISBN-10:383654783X
Author:Jonathan William Henery
Publisher:Taschen
Imprint:Taschen GmbH
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:12 September 2016
Weight:846g
Dimensions:290mm x 238mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“The collection documents both the complex process and simple beauty of the resulting docks.”

“The collection documents both the complex process and simple beauty of the resulting docks.”

About The Author

Jonathan William Henery

Wolfgang Volz has worked with Christo and Jeanne-Claude as the exclusive photographer of their works since 1971. He was also project director (with Roland Specker) for Wrapped Reichstag and (with Josy Kraft) for Wrapped Trees, and was in charge of The Wall - 13,000 Oil Barrels, Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany, 1998-99 and Big Air Package, Gasometer Oberhausen, Germany, 2010-13. His close collaboration has resulted in many books and more than 300 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world.

Jonathan William Henery is the son of Jeanne-Claude’s sister, Joyce May Henery. In 1993, he received a Bachelor of Arts from Fordham University. He is a musician and was Jeanne-Claude’s full-time assistant from 1996 to 2009, and continues to manage Christo’s office today. Jonathan has collaborated on numerous publications about their work.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude began their collaboration in 1961, and have lived in New York City since 1964. Jeanne-Claude died in 2009. Their large-scale projects include Wrapped Coast, Australia, 1968-69; Valley Curtain, Rifle, Colorado, 1970-72; Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-76; Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Florida, 1980-83; The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Paris, 1975-85; The Umbrellas, Japan-USA, 1984-91; Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95; Wrapped Trees, Riehen, Switzerland, 1997-98; The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005; and The Floating Piers, Lake Iseo, Italy, 2014-16.

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