Born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, but simply known as ‘Christo’, the Bulgarian-born artist became famous for his large-scale interventions within the landscape. He died this week aged 84, reported to have passed away peacefully at his home in New York from natural causes on Sunday (31 May).
Together with his late wife, Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, the couple wrapped iconic global landmarks – both natural and man-made – in thousands of meters of fabric, bound up in a conversation which possessed both political and environmental overtones.
