Video: How to cover the immensity. Installation of Big Air Package by Christo
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
American artist of Bulgarian descent Hristo Yavashev (Christo) known all over the world for the fact that he can cover with cloth any, even the largest object. In his new work, this happened to a huge gas storage tower in the city of Oberhausen. Moreover, he wrapped her Christo from the inside!
In Japan, with the culture's obsession with detail, even gift wrapping can become an art. And the American artist, who fled communist Bulgaria back in 1956, has been wrapping various objects in cloth for many decades. It could be a typewriter or a car, the Reichstag building in Berlin, or even a huge space on the seaside.
Christo's new work appeared recently in the German city of Oberhausen, where the largest gas meter in Europe is located, now used as an exhibition hall. This object is an American artist and covered with a snow-white cloth. True, not from the outside, but from the inside.
This required 20,350 square meters of fabric and four and a half kilometers of rope holding it. In creating this unusual installation, not a single solid object was used, except for the frame of the gas meter itself. And this despite the fact that the total weight of the work is more than five tons.
The natural light that enters through the circular window at the top of the gas tower is evenly distributed throughout the entire interior of the Big Air Package installation, creating, according to Christo, "a space of ether in which a person enters a state of happiness and weightlessness."
The height of the Gasometer itself in Oberhausen is 117.5 meters, and the Big Air Package installation located in it is 90 meters.
This is the first work by Hristo Yavashev to appear after the death of his wife and co-author in 2009. The art world thought that it would never see new installations from a Bulgarian-American artist. But his triumphant return took place in Oberhausen!
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