He did so after his youngest son, Payton, a member of the track team, informed him about the announcement when he returned home after the competition. Lijewski opened one of his scrap books containing newspaper articles and pictures about his many achievements as a three-sport star athlete for the Bison. The school mistakenly announced during an April 26th home track meet that Jack Lantz was the new school record holder after he cleared the stick in the pole vault at 11’ 6”. With wrapping projects that have transformed buildings and landscapes into abstract objects, such as' Wrapped Coast.(New Buffalo, MI) - Roger Lijewski remains the all-time king in the pole vault at New Buffalo High School after breaking the school record in 1975. In the sense of an ecological aesthetic, the works have their legitimacy purely in memory, dedicated to the ephemeral and transient, by not adding more monuments to an already crowded world. The installations, on the other hand, were always temporary and the materials recycled afterwards. As an artist collective, the pair realised monumental sculptures and installations for over 45 years, often draping and/or wrapping large sections of landscapes, industrial objects and buildings with a special type of fabric.Īn important part of the large-scale projects were preliminary drawings, project sketches and objects, and later photographic documentation, which were sold by Christo and Jeanne-Claude to finance the costly projects from the beginning.
With 'L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped' (18 September - 03 October 2021), Christo and Jeanne-Claude's last project was realised posthumously. Christo (Christo Wladimirow Jawaschew, born 1935 in Bulgaria, died 2020 in New York) and Jeanne-Claude (Jeanne-Claude Marie Denat, born 1935 in Casablanca, died 2009 in New York) created a number of world-famous installations as an artist couple.
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