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Cyril poem

DimensionsOverall: 11 1/4 × 8 3/4 × 1 1/4 inches (28.58 × 22.23 × 3.18 cm)
Credit LineGift of The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation
Object number2024.68.68
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DescriptionTyped document with a poem. Signed: “to the Wrapped Walkways” by Cyril, Jan. ’87.Exhibition History
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Nine years after his parents transformed Loose Park, Cyril Christo reflected on his own encounter with the project that put Kansas City on the contemporary art world map and wrote this poem.

The response to Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Wrapped Walk Ways was overwhelmingly positive. Although the project challenged the expectations and perceptions of what art can be for some visitors to the park, countless others were mesmerized and many left with vivid memories of the experience.

Provenance

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.

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