site.btaArtists from Taraclia Join Launch Event for LIK Issue Dedicated to Christo and Jeanne-Claude

At the press club of the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) in Taraclia, the centre of Bulgarians in Moldova, this year’s graduates and the art teacher from the regional Children’s School of Arts watched the online presentation of the issue of LIK magazine dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude.

The LIK launch event was held simultaneously at the Christo and Jean-Claude Centre in Gabrovo and BTA’s MaxiM Hall in Sofia, with the participation of the BTA national press clubs in the country and abroad via video link.

2025 celebrates the artists’ 90th birth anniversary. It also marks three major anniversaries related to the couple’s work: 40 years since The Pont Neuf Wrapped in Paris, 30 years since Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin, and 20 years since The Gates installation in New York’s Central Park.

After the end of the video link, the artists from Taraclia shared their impressions:

“I never imagined that wrapping a building could be art. But I realized that what is important is the message, not just the form,” said Miroslava Kaipak.

“I was most impressed by the fact that Christo worked 17 hours a day and said that he could not breathe without art. I liked the Arc de Triomphe project the most. It looks so strange and beautiful at the same time. I realized that art can be anywhere, even on the street, and that it does not always have to be in a frame,” said Ksenia Neykulova.

“The conference was different from anything I’ve ever seen. It wasn’t like a lesson. I saw people talking about Christo with respect and admiration, and I thought how nice it is that a Bulgarian has touched the world in such a way. I felt proud and inspired. I want to be talked about like that one day, not because of fame, but because I’ve done something that makes people think and feel,” commented Maria Nikiforova.

Art teacher Olesya Plagova said:

“To attend the presentation of this issue of LIK magazine, dedicated to Christo and Jeanne-Claude, was a real inspiration, not only for me as a teacher, but also for my students. For the first time, they saw how conceptual art can change the perspective of entire societies. This encounter with the spirit of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, albeit through the pages of the magazine, reminded us that art is freedom. And that the greatest success of an artist is to make people stop and see the world in a new way. Thank you to BTA for this initiative, it has already borne fruit in the minds of children,” said Plagova.