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Show Art film to be shown in Braithwaite Gallery CEDAR CITY - The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Southern Utah State College, has announced that an hour-long hour-long film, "Christo: Ten Works in Progress," will be shown tonight at 8 p.m. The film was made available by Friends of the Gallery. According to Prof. Thomas A. Leek, gallery curator, Christo's illustrious "wrappings" have shrouded motorcycles, motor-cycles, magazines, bottles and entire buildings. Using fabric and rope or cable, urban landmarks and huge tracts of land have been dramatically transformed tran-sformed by this ingenious Bulgarian-born artist who emigrated to Paris in 1959 and settled in New York in 1964. Christo may be the century's most "public .". artist. His major outdoor pieces almost always require the legal endorsement en-dorsement of governmental govern-mental authorities and local communities-contacts communities-contacts and confrontations con-frontations that Christo actively accepts as critical elements in his work. He enthusiastically enlists the expertise and labor of lawyers, engineers, ' contractors and student helpers therefore engaging teams of collaborators whose usual dealings are far from the world of art. "Ten Works in Progress" consists of documentary chapters about Christo's daring projects, spanning a period of fifteen years. |