Christo

Christo's drawings and collages documenting site-specific wrapping projects, both realized and unrealized, presented alongside a concurrent installation exhibition.

Why go

The works on view are vital preparatory studies and architectural renderings that clarify how Christo and Jeanne-Claude's monumental, ephemeral installations appeared—documents of structures that existed only briefly in specific locations. The exhibition pairs with a concurrent show featuring a large-scale 1968 indoor installation at Grosvenor Hill

What to expect

Original drawings, collages, and mixed-media works including graphite, charcoal, wax crayon, enamel paint, photographs, and masking tape on paper. Key works include Wrapped Vestibule (1990) and Wrapped Floors and Stairway and Covered Windows (1998), presented in the Burlington Arcade gallery space.

Things to know

• Christo and Jeanne-Claude used wrapping to transform architectural interiors, disrupting institutional spaces and revealing them as both for
• Wrapped Vestibule (1990) swathed the Art Gallery of New South Wales entrance in white fabric bound with rope, concealing and revealing colum
• Wrapped Floors (1998) used approximately 1,188 square meters of cotton drop cloth to cover parquet floors and staircases across five rooms o
• The exhibition opens the same day as Christo: Air at Grosvenor Hill, featuring rare early works and a large-scale indoor installation origin
• Christo produced no further studies of realized public works, but created numerous prints detailing plans that remained unbuilt.
• The artists' drawings borrowed from architectural rendering styles to clarify how monumental installations would ultimately appear.

Plan your visit

Hours: Monday–Saturday 10–6, Sunday 11–6. Located at 28–29 Burlington Arcade, London W1J OQJ. Contact: +44 20 7841 9962 or london@gagosian.com.