Christo, Taschen, and the Serpentine Galleries recently published Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Barrels and The Mastaba, 1958-2018. I had the pleasure of working on The London Mastaba and co-authoring this book, which also includes essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Paul Goldberger and features the photographs of Wolfgang Volz. Barrels and The Mastaba follows the use of barrels in Christo and Jeanne-Claude's works of art beginning with Christo's earliest sculptures in 1958 and ending with 2018's The London Mastaba. The variety and profusion of the artists' oeuvre continues to amaze me, even though I have been familiar with their archives for 13 years; here's a book that deals with just one strain of their work and the book's 208 pages barely touch the surface.
The book was a product of many talents, including my colleagues Vladimir Yavachev, Lorenza Giovanelli, Erin Bazos, Jonathan Henery, Wolfgang Volz and the team at Taschen, including Simone Philippi.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude's artwork has always been funded by the artists themselves. Christo also earns no proceeds from the sales of this book; the book exists for the sole purpose to provide an accurate record of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's works of art.
