Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Over the River, a Work in Progress
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Over The River, a Work in Progress, an exhibition of more than 150 photographs, collages, drawings, and maps, will chronicle the artists’ process as they prepare to assemble and suspend massive silvery fabric panels horizontally over the Arkansas River in Colorado.
Christo, Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado (1998)
Christo, Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado (1996)
Wolfgang Volz, Christo marks precisely the segments and interruptions on the aerial photographs prepared after a flight over the course of the river (2000)
Christo, Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado (2001)
Christo, Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado (2007)
Wolfgang Volz, June 1999, the last of four life-size tests conducted on a private ranch, outside Grand Junction, Colo., for Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado (1999)
About the Exhibition
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Over The River, a Work in Progress, an exhibition of more than 150 photographs, collages, drawings, and maps, will chronicle the artists’ process as they prepare to assemble and suspend massive silvery fabric panels horizontally over the Arkansas River in Colorado.
Highlighting The Phillips Collection’s longstanding commitment to representing important developments in modern and contemporary art, the exhibition at the Phillips will be followed by a national tour.
The Phillips’s exhibition will trace the development of this ambitious project over the past 16 years by displaying the process and materials that will be used to accomplish the artistic and engineering feat.
The exhibition is organized by The Phillips Collection.