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The artist couple Christo & Jeanne-Claude have erected a 50 kilometres PVC portico

15-02-2005

PVC is playing a central role over the next 16 days in Central Park in New York, where the artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude finally had their mega project “The Gates” erected Saturday 12 February. “The Gates” is a project in which Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been engaged for almost 25 years, with the aim to get permission to have it erected in New York. The artwork consists of 7500 saffron yellow gates that are running like a golden river through the footpaths of Central Park. The poles of the gates are built of PVC profiles, on which is also hanging a saffron yellow textile cloth. The total length is 50 kilometres, and 100 kilometres PVC profiles in total are used for the application.

Characteristically for Christo’s big, spectacular installations are that they are not sponsored by any companies or the like. The artworks are solely financed by the income, Christo has on his art. “The Gates” have cost Christo about 16 millions Euro. Christo is probably most known for his wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin.

A typically feature of the New Yorker is according to Christo that he is walking a lot. This is, among others, the characteristic that he has sought to catch in “The Gates”. The project is according to Christo full of atmosphere, since the relation between the PVC gates’ very strict, geometric shapes and the very sensual turbulence that characterizes the waving textile cloth are coming into play.

As mentioned, “The Gates” will remain for 16 days. Then the temporary work of art will be removed and the PVC profiles will be recycled. For more information on “The Gates” see:

http://www.wolfgangvolz.com/GatesMaking.htm
http://christojeanneclaude.net/tg.html

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