In an unexpected announcement today, Christo , the surviving half of husband-and-wife artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude, revealed that he had secured all necessary approvals to realize his next big project: wrapping Paris’s Arc de Triomphe in fabric. The artist team behind The Gates, installed in Central Park in 2005, and Wrapped Reichstag, from 1995, Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been pushing the boundaries of art in the public domain for nearly 60 years.

Following last summer’s blockbuster installation in London , which saw him build a 500-ton floating ziggurat in London’s Hyde Park, L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped (Project for Paris, Place de l’Etoile-Charles de Gaulle) will see him return to the idiom for which he is so well known. The temporary installation will be on view for 14 days, beginning on April 6, 2020, and closing on April 19.

It will also see him return to the city where he met Jeanne-Claude, and where they both launched their art practice. They first conceived L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped in 1962, one year after they first met, when they were both living in Paris. At the time, Christo was renting a small room near the monument, so it became the subject of early sketches and studies—and a project they would continue to design over the decades. In 1985, they wrapped Paris’s Pont-Neuf bridge, which took ten years of work to clear the regulatory approvals process.

Another rending shows how the project will look from the ground view.

In a statement, Christo said, “Thirty-five years after Jeanne-Claude and I wrapped the Pont-Neuf, I am eager to work in Paris again to realize our project for the Arc de Triomphe.” The wrapping itself will happen by way of 25,000 square meters of recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue, held in place with 7,000 meters of red rope. The project will be self-financed, made possible through the sale of his own preparatory studies, drawings, scale models, and collages of the project, as well as lithographs from other subjects.

The installation will coincide with a major exhibition of their work at the Centre Pompidou. On view from March 18, 2020, through June 15 of that year, “Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Paris” will provide focus on their body of work made during their time in Paris, including a presentation about Pont-Neuf Wrapped.