Large color photograph of Jacob L. Loose Park, Kansas City, Missouri
Artist
Wolfgang Volz
(German, born 1948)
Date1978
MediumPhotograph
DimensionsOverall: 39 × 28 inches (99.06 × 71.12 cm)
Credit LineGift of The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation
Object number2024.68.37
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Wrapped Walk Ways transformed Loose Park and visitors’ perceptions of it. After the intervention concluded on October 16, 1978, they gave the 16,000 linear feet of luminescent nylon to the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department to repurpose.
Poetically describing the temporary nature of projects like Wrapped Walk Ways, Christo noted that they are “things in transition . . . passing through”—just like the visitors to Loose Park who traversed its pathways covered in saffron fabric for just two weeks.
The artists, New York, NY, 1978–2024;
Gifted by The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation (New York, NY) to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 2024.
Copyright© The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation / The Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York
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