TAMPA, FLA.- The Tampa Museum of Art introduces its fall exhibition, XTO + J-C: Christo and Jeanne-Claude Featuring Works from the Bequest of David C. Copley. Executive Director, Michael Tomor, remarked, “Christo and Jeanne-Claude, known for their temporal beautiful installations that always disappear from the natural landscape as a condition of the project, are remarkably documented in the most extraordinary, handsomely executed works on paper and photographs on view in the Farish, Ferman and Sullivan Galleries. We are thrilled to bring these works to the Tampa Bay community.”

XTO + J-C: Christo and Jeanne-Claude Featuring Works from the Bequest of David C. Copley. On view September 26, 2015 through January 3, 2016

Christo is best known for the monumental projects he and his late wife and collaborator Jeanne-Claude accomplished over nearly four decades. These include the 24 1/2 mile-long Running Fence in California’s Sonoma and Marin Counties (1976), the Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin (1995), and the epic-scale crowd pleaser The Gates (2005), which comprised 7,053 fabric banners that spanned the walkways of New York’s Central Park.

XTO+J-C presents Christo’s important Wrapped Package (1960) alongside many drawings and collages related to his early wrapped objects—chairs, road signs, motorcycles, and other commonplace items that disrupt our relationship to the everyday through their concealment. The exhibition also includes Christo’s large-scale Store Front (1965–66) and a related series of Show Windows from the early ‘70s, which signal an expansion of the artist’s sculptural practice to a new environmental realm.

Taken together, this exhibition features more than fifty works by Christo, and also highlights recent gifts from The David C. Copley Foundation and from the artist himself, in recognition of Copley’s patronage and support of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego over the years. The late David C. Copley (1952–2012) was the most prolific collector of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work in the United States.

XTO+J-C: Christo and Jeanne-Claude Featuring Works from the Bequest of David C. Copley is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.