Christo, conceptual artist who wrapped the Reichstag – obituary

Christo, who has died aged 84, was the Bulgarian-American conceptual artist best known for wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin in nearly 25 acres of silver polypropylene fabric and nine miles of rope for two weeks in 1995. With his French-born wife and collaborator Jeanne-Claude (and then alone after her death in 2009), Christo (real name Christo Javacheff) occupied a unique position in contemporary art, undertaking eye-catching monumental wrapping-up exercises and other huge, if ephemeral, project