Kaldor Public Art Project 09: Christo & Jeanne-Claude 1990

'Wrapped Vestibule'

Christo exhibition

12 September – 25 November 1990

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Christo exhibition

2 March – 14 April 1991

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

Twenty-one years after Christo and Jeanne-Claude created 'Wrapped Coast – One Million Square Fee't, Little Bay, Sydney, Australia, 1968–69, the first Kaldor Public Art Project, a survey exhibition, Christo, was staged at Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales and Perth’s Art Gallery of Western Australia as Project 9. The exhibition traced Christo’s first sculptural works through to the wrapped buildings and vast environmental projects he created with Jeanne-Claude, where they famously wrapped, surrounded and veiled sites around the world. Over 150 works were displayed, many from Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s private collection. A new work, 'Wrapped Vestibule', was also made for the exhibition in Sydney. It was the largest exhibition of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's works to date and the first time an Australian museum had curated a survey of a contemporary international artist.