Printed paper, polythene and string
Tate Collection
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/christo-905" aria-label="More by Christo (Christo Javacheff)" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Christo (Christo Javacheff)</a>
Der Speigel Magazine Wrapped
Purchased 1982
adults
artist, multi-media
arts and entertainment
body
commerce
Dalí, Salvador
emotions, concepts and ideas
fine art and design, named works
humour
individuals: male
Leonardo da Vinci, painting, ‘Mona Lisa’
magazine, ‘Der Spiegel’
man
moustache
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
reading, writing, printed matter
social comment
society
universal concepts
work and occupations
paper unique printed polythene string
13 September 2010 – 7 December 2010
2010-12-07
13 September 2010 – 7 December 2010
2010-12-07
2010-09-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-09-13
CAS 3
Collection based display
Der Speigel Magazine Wrapped
support: 305 × 115 × 10 mm
frame: 485 × 294 × 27 mm
Purchased 1982
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/christo-der-speigel-magazine-wrapped-p07640" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07640</span></a> <b>Der Spiegel</b> 1963
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<br/>Folded magazine wrapped in transparent plastic and tied with string, 12 × 4 1/2 (305 × 115), wrapped and tied by the artist, published by Hans Moller, Düsseldorf, in an edition of 130
<br/>Inscribed ‘Christo 63’ b.r. and ‘96’
<br/>Purchased at Sotheby's, Los Angeles (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
<br/><i>Lit</i>: Per Hovdenakk, Christo Complete Editions 1964–82, Munich 1982, no.1
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<br/>Christo's first wrapped works were made in 1958 (see <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/christo-wrapped-cans-part-of-inventory-t03290" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>T03290</span></a>, Tate Gallery Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1980–82, pp.63–4), using cloth, or polythene for those in which he wanted to show the contents of the work. He made his first wrapped magazine in 1961. Other unique works related to ‘Der Spiegel’ include a wrapped post-card vending stand and magazines on a wire rack, both made in 1963. For the series ‘<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/edition" title="Glossary definition for 'Edition'"><span>Edition</span></a> Original 1’ in which Hans Moller published the work of fifteen artists, Christo wrapped 130 different copies of the German news magazine Der Spiegel. The work was a gesture of thanks to Moller, who had allowed Christo and his wife to share his apartment in Dusseldorf while Christo was preparing an exhibition at the Alfred Schmela Gallery in 1963. The Tate's work is the issue for Wednesday 7 October 1959, with a cover picture of the famous photo-<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/collage" title="Glossary definition for 'Collage'"><span>collage</span></a> of Salvador Dali as the Mona Lisa, from Dali's Mustache by Dali and Philippe Halsman, New York 1954, an interview in the form of questions with pictorial answers. The image is in answer to the question ‘Dali, what do you see when you see the Mona Lisa?’ and is captioned ‘A Paragon of Beauty’. The Dali image relates to Marcel Duchamp's ‘L.H.O.O.Q.’, a reproduction of the Mona Lisa with a small moustache and beard added; Duchamp's first version was made in 1919. The article in Der Spiegel is about the Mona Lisa as universally known symbol and as a vehicle for parodies of various kinds. The cover picture, with all its connotations of notoriety, art as news, as personality cult and as high-priced commodity is not hidden or disguised but transformed by being wrapped.
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<br/>This entry has been approved by the artist.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1986
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2004-10-13T00:00:00
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adults artist, multi-media arts and entertainment body commerce Dalí, Salvador emotions, concepts and ideas fine art and design, named works humour individuals: male Leonardo da Vinci, painting, ‘Mona Lisa’ magazine, ‘Der Spiegel’ man moustache named individuals objects people portraits reading, writing, printed matter social comment society universal concepts work and occupations