Lost ‘cloud’ of artist who wrapped the Reichstag to be created in UK gallery
Exclusive: Scale model found in Christo’s studio leads to London realisation of internally lit Package on a Ceiling Christo once wrapped up the Reichstag, suspended a curtain across a Colorado valley and covered up the Pont Neuf in Paris. Now, six years after the artist’s death, a London gallery is to create a monumental installation he designed in 1968, using a detailed scale model and drawings that had been presumed lost until their chance discovery. Christo had imagined a vast, internally ill
Exclusive: Scale model found in Christo’s studio leads to London realisation of internally lit Air Package on a Ceiling
Christo once wrapped up the Reichstag, suspended a curtain across a Colorado valley and covered up the Pont Neuf in Paris. Now, six years after the artist’s death, a London gallery is to create a monumental installation he designed in 1968, using a detailed scale model and drawings that had been presumed lost until their chance discovery.
Christo had imagined a vast, internally illuminated suspended form, like a cloud, but technical constraints meant the plan was never brought to fruition.
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