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Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Wrapped Trees. Basel 1997–1998

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In Autumn 1998, Christo and Jeanne-Claude transformed 162 trees around Fondation Beyeler into a sculptural masterwork, wrapping them in 55,000 square meters of polyester fabric. It was the artists’ pièce de résistance in a long history of wrapping trees, and created an ever-changing panorama of form, texture, and color. This limited Art Edition, complete with print and swatch of the project fabric, traces the project story start to finish.

Limited Art Edition of 1,000 copies, each signed by Christo, Jeanne-Claude, and Wolfgang Volz, with an original cibachrome and a piece of the original project fabric
Edition of 1,000Hardcover in slipcase with piece of fabric and print9.3 x 11.8 in.4.24 lb136 pages
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Wrapped Trees. Basel 1997–1998

Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Wrapped Trees. Basel 1997–1998

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Wrapped Trees

Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen, Basel, Switzerland, 1997-1998

In Autumn 1998, after the trees around Fondation Beyeler and in the Berower Park had shed their leaves, Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped 162 trees—some up to 25 meters high—with 55,000 square meters of polyester fabric and 23 kilometers of rope. The effect of light and weather on the translucent material created a kind of amorphous sculptural choreography, an ever-changing variety of shapes, surfaces, and colors. The fabric, used every winter in Japan to protect trees from frost and heavy snow, lent the trees the appearance of precious and fragile objects.

The Fondation Beyeler project was a pièce de résistance for Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and an extension and expansion of many years of interest in the concept of wrapped trees. By 1998, the artist pair renowned for their environmental interventionshad worked on trees for over three decades. In 1966, they wrapped a 10-meter-high tree in a personal exhibition in the Stedelijk van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven. In the same year they worked on a wrapped trees project for Forest Park in Saint Louis, Missouri, and in 1968 for the Museum of Modern Art In New York. In 1969, Two Wrapped Trees were exhibited in Sydney.

Packed full of exclusive images and documentation, this volume traces the expansive history of Wrapped Trees as well as the project’s realization story, from start to finish. It includes preparatory drawings, collages, and plans from Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s archive, as well as numerous photographs of the final Wrapped Trees.

Limited Art Edition of 1,000 copies, each signed by Christo, Jeanne-Claude, and Wolfgang Volz, with an original cibachrome and a piece of the original project fabric
The artists

Christo and Jeanne-Claude began their collaboration in 1961, and lived in New York City since 1964. Jeanne-Claude died in 2009; Christo died in 2020. 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; The Floating Piers, Lake Iseo, Italy, 2014–16, The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park, 2016–18, and L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, Paris, 1961–2021.

The photographer

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, Berlin, 1971–95 and (with Josy Kraft) for Wrapped Trees, Riehen, Switzerland, 1997–98, 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.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Wrapped Trees. Basel 1997–1998
Edition of 1,000Hardcover in slipcase with piece of fabric and print23.5 x 30 cm1.92 kg136 pages

ISBN 978-3-8228-7198-0

Edition: Multilingual (English, French, German)
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The art of presenting art

Vladislav,October 29, 2021
An influential work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, presented with the quality typical of TASCHEN.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude IT IS!

Tomislav,October 27, 2021
In the year when our eyes are focused on Christo's last project: Wrapped L'Arc de Triomphe, the book Wrapped Trees presents just one in a series of brilliant ideas of this couple who have committed themselves to the world and provided what is most important to us: the idea of beauty and togetherness, the idea of peace and love, the idea of simplicity and artistic sublimity. We see all this by observing the works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude who marked (art) history - forever, and lived among us.

Edición muy cuidada de obra emblemática

Juanma,December 17, 2021
Edición muy bien cuidada, con el extra añadido de una muestra de la tela usada para envolver los árboles, más una fotografía firmada, que es una obra de colección en sí misma y una excelente pieza para decorar cualquier estancia. De plena actualidad tras la obra póstuma con la envoltura del Arco del Triunfo de Paris.

Schönes Buch mit signiertem Foto

Georg,November 2, 2021
Erst durch das schöne Foto bin ich auf das sehr inspirierende Buch aufmerksam geworden.

Tolle Umsetzung

Norbert,October 29, 2021
Sehr schönes Exemplar, aufwändig verarbeitet mit hochwertigen Bildern und interessanten Texten. Tolle Umsetzung der künstlerischen Idee von Christo & Jeanne-Claude durch de Projektleiter und Fotografen Wolfgang Volz.