Last Thursday, Mike brought it to the exhibit. He kept that same Polaroid his father, who passed away in 2012, took of the Valley Curtain before a gale storm wiped the curtain out in its 28th hour of existence.
When Mike Prinster read about Hexton’s upcoming Christo and Jeanne-Claude exhibit, he was inspired to do something.
“When he saw Rifle Gap, he saw not only close proximity to the highway but also bathrooms and parking at the golf course that was nearby,” Chase said. But the project, eventually requiring 99 construction workers and helpers to erect, seemed a rational fit after Christo came across Rifle Gap. “Christo fell in love with it and came through a number of times,” Chase said.Ĭhristo had originally envisioned the Valley Curtain for Aspen. Powers once took Christo to Aspen and, from there, Christo was enamored. (Carbondale’s Powers Art Center is dedicated in his honor.) Christo successfully slipped away from underneath the Iron Curtain and, in 1958, met Jeanne-Claude in Paris.Īmid their ascension to international stardom and decades’ long dedication to instrumenting natural settings and manmade infrastructure to create vast pieces of environmental art, a notable local Carbondale art collector is what ignited Christo’s interest in Colorado’s High Country.Ĭhristo already had many patrons in Colorado, Chase said. Jeanne-Claude was also born June 13, 1935, but in Casablanca, French Morocco. The story behind famous artists Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon coming to Rifle to create something Colorado locals like the Prinsters would forever cherish is as storied as they come.Ĭhristo was born in Gabrovo, Bulgaria on June 13, 1935. “Drawings that were made 50 years ago look like they came off (Christo’s) easel within 20 hours.” “They’ve never seen the light of day,” Chase said. The smallest piece is 22-x-28 inches, and the largest, 63-x-96 inches. Then we focused on other really important land-based projects that (Christo) did.”Įxactly 17 original Christo works currently furnish Hexton Gallery, an Aspen staple that originally got its start near the corner of 78th Street and Madison Avenue in Upper West Side Manhattan. “The Valley Curtain project, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary and was staged in Rifle, was the base from which we built upon. Hexton Gallery represents the Christo and Jeanne-Claude estate, and, as a result, “could pick from Christo’s favorite pieces that he kept for himself for each project,” Bob Chase, the gallery’s founder, said. The exhibit also includes Christo’s repertoire of “Wrapped Objects,” like a bouquet of flowers he once wrapped for Jeanne-Claude. The curated unveiling consists of Christo drawings and collages representative of the duo’s most iconic projects: “The Gates” of Central Park, the “Surrounded Islands” of Miami and the “Valley Curtain” of Rifle, Colorado. It features the never-before-seen works from Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s private collection. 1 and is in collaboration with the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation. The newest “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Ephemeral Nature” exhibit officially opened Aug.
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