As square, poised and powerful as Christo seemed skinny, nervous and fragile, his nephew Vladimir Javachev, 48, is a typical New Yorker, driven by action and entrepreneurship.
Since he was 17, he has followed Christo in many of his wildest projects (pleonasm), from
Over the River
in Colorado (1992) to the Reichstag Successful Against Winds and Tides (1995), from
Wrapped Trees
to the Beyeler Foundation. from Basel (1997-1998) to the
Gates
in Central Park (2004-2005).
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He is the operational director of the
Arc de Triomphe empaqueté project
.
He leads with his calm, but undivided authority, the expert and young team - around fifty people - installed since July in the former premises of Conforama, behind the Star.
An ultra-technical project monitored 24 hours a day, during assembly, exhibition and dismantling, which the context of the epidemic has made even more sensitive.
For
Le Figaro
, Vladimir Javachev paints a portrait of this artist always on the move, at
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