This retrospective traced the trajectory of Christo’s career, from his early works to his large-scale environmental projects, drawing primarily from the Rothschild Bank Collection in Zurich. The exhibition featured key works, including preparatory drawings in which the initial ideas for many of his projects first took shape, revealing the creative process behind his ambitious undertakings.
Christo’s fundamental artistic concepts—wrapping, stacking, stretching, and covering—developed into large-scale projects involving public buildings and spaces. Rather than creating permanent monuments, however, these works were conceived as temporary events that emphasized engagement with local communities and their surroundings.
Following this exhibition, Christo realized The Umbrellas project, which had been in preparation since 1984. From October 9 to 26, 1991, a total of 3,100 monumental umbrellas were simultaneously installed in Ibaraki, Japan, and Los Angeles, California, bringing into focus the similarities and differences in landscape, daily life, social structures, and cultural values between the two regions. The Sezon Museum of Modern Art holds The Umbrellas Project for Japan and Western USA (1988), as well as The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Project for Paris (1982) and Wrapped Reichstag, Project for Berlin (1984), both of which were included in this exhibition.