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© 1995 Christo & Prestel Verlag
Interview with Christo
Interviewer: Masahiko Yanagi
Page 10 of 12
With friendly permission by Prestel Verlag
Collage (two parts) 1992
Foto: Wolfgang Volz
Collection Jeanne-Claude Christo, New York
Yanagi:
What do you usually do with the fabric after a project?
Christo:
It is not only the fabric, it is the cables, the
steel... We donate it so that it is recycled for all kinds
of purposes. In California we distributed the
materials to the ranchers and in Colorado to the
highway department. The fabric for the Pont Neuf
project is still in Basel, Switzerland, but we are
going to give it to the charitable organization
"Action International contre la faim" for refugees in
Pakistan and Bangladesh. In this case we can give
the fabric but we cannot pay for transportation, and
for the moment I think the Relief Fund is having
problems finding someone to transport it from
Switzerland.
Collage (two parts) 1993
Foto: Wolfgang Volz
Collection Jeanne-Claude Christo, New York
Yanagi:
I have recently found an old advertisement
selling fabric from the Running Fence with
photographs.
Christo:
People do all kinds of things. Several of the
ranchers sold the fabric and the poles. There was
also an incredible man in Paris who bought
postcards of The Pont Neuf Wrapped, and put
French postage stamps on the front, and had the
post office stamp them with the cancellation day of
The Pont Neuf Wrapped, and he sells these
postcards with the permission of our
photographer, Wolfgang Volz. There have been all
kinds of commercial endeavors, some with
permission, some without. Sometimes we try to
stop them if they are not really good, but
sometimes it is difficult, and we discover these
things only later.
© 1995 Christo & Prestel Verlag