site.btaExhibition Dedicated to Christo's 90th Birth Anniversary to Be Presented at National Library

Albums, individual sheet reproductions and postcards from the collection of the National Library will be presented on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the birth of Hristo Yavashev, more known by his artistic pseudonym Christo. The temporary exhibition will open on June 13 and will continue until June 15, the hosts said.

The world-famous Bulgarian artist, sculptor and avant-garde artist Christo was born in Gabrovo. He is a graduate of the Sofia Academy of Art and is known for his and his wife Jeanne-Claude's original spatial art installations.

Christo was most well known for wrapping various objects, from a typewriter and a telephone to entire buildings, islands and even the coast. Among Christo's iconic creative installations were the wrapped Reichstag building in Berlin and the Pont Neuf - the oldest bridge in Paris, he stretched 38-kilometre canvas curtains in California and placed canvas portals in Central Park in New York, the National Library recalled.