Being A Foreigner Is Dividing Line in Christo's Life, Says Journalist Atanasova-Teneva

Ivan Dolev, Filip Pavlov

Journalist Evgeniya Atanasova-Teneva (BTA Photo/Blagoy Kirilov)

Gabrovo, Central Bulgaria,

25.06.2025 20:02

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To be a foreigner is the dividing line in Christo's life, which has defined a lot in his art and in his fate, journalist Evgeniya Atanasova-Teneva said on Wednesday during the presentation of LIK's June issue. She was speaking during a presentation of LIK’s June issue, dedicated to the pioneering artist Christo (1935–2020) and his wife Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009). The event is taking place concurrently at the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Centre in Gabrovo, North Central Bulgaria and BTA’s MaxiM Hall in Sofia as well as the BTA national press clubs across Bulgaria and abroad.

Atanasova-Teneva paid particular attention to Christo's relationship with Bulgaria, a topic that the journalist defines as one of the most tragic in Christo's life. "At the end of the 1960s, when he made the Wrapped Reichstag, he asked his parents if they could send him any newspapers to see what they write about it in Bulgaria," Atanasova recalled. She also said that the highest ideal was freedom for Christo, adding that the artist not only pursued freedom, but was ready to give up a lot for it.

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