French artist Christo is putting the final touches on his latest creation. The Gates, scheduled to open Saturday Feb. 12, will be installed on 37 kilometers of Central Park pathways.

Photo: Wolfgang Volz ©2004 Christo Ref.# 047

According to The Washington Post: "For 15 days Central Park will billow with mile after mile of saffron-colored fabric, all of it hanging from 7,500 gates, each about 16 feet high and at least 5 1/2 feet wide. For weeks, construction teams have been installing the bases and posts that will zigzag through a marathon of pathways in the park, each gate about 12 feet from the next."

On Christo's official site, it is mentionned that: "The temporary work of art The Gates is scheduled for February 2005, to remain for 16 days, then the 7,500 Gates shall be removed and the materials will be recycled. As Christo and Jeanne-Claude have always done for their previous projects, The Gates will be entirely financed by the artists through C.V.J. Corp, (Jeanne-Claude Javacheff, President) with the sale of studies, preparatory drawings and collages, scale models, earlier works of the fifties and sixties, and original lithographs on other subjects. The artists do not accept sponsorship or donations. Christo and Jeanne-Claude have donated the merchandising rights to the charitable foundation "NNYN" (Nurture New York's Nature and Arts) who are sharing these rights with The Central Park Conservancy. Neither New York City nor the Park administration shall bear any of the expenses for The Gates."

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