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Paris’s Arc de Triomphe Wrapped in Cloth for Art Installation
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3:03Now PlayingIt couldn’t be done during their lifetimes. But about 60 years after artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude first dreamed of it, their art project of wrapping Paris’s landmark Arc de Triomphe monument in cloth will be completed this weekend.
Wrapping the Napoleonic-era arc in 25,000 square meters of silvery-blue polypropylene fabric -- recyclable and tethered with 3,000 meters of red rope -- cost 14 million euros ($16.6 million) and involved more than 1,000 people.
“L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped” is the final work of the artistic duo best known for wrapping the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin. The now-deceased husband-and-wife team met in Paris after Christo Vladimir Javacheff, who was born in Bulgaria, immigrated to the French capital, residing near the Arc de Triomphe. The couple was known for their large-scale and site-specific installations that gave a nod to the environment in a movement known as “Land Art.”
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