Silkscreen and collage of brown packing paper. Signed and numbered, titled in the printing block. From an edition of 110 copies. On thin cardboard. 71 x 55.5 cm. , the full sheet.
Printed by Hans-Peter Haas, Stuttgart. Published by Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, and Edition Schellmann & Klüser, Munich. [AW].
• The “Red Store Front” project is an early and important work in the artist's oeuvre.
• Draft for his solo exhibition at Galleria del Leone in Venice.
• Christo's “Store Fronts” are paradoxes - an architectural exterior is presented in an interior and contrasted by mysteriously curtained windows.
• The projects of Christo and Jeanne-Claude expanded the concept of art and repeatedly created breathtaking works of lasting impact.
LITERATURE: Jörg Schellmann, Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Prints and Objects, Berlin 2021, no. 93 (illu.).