Christo and Jeanne-Claude Barrels and The Mastaka 1958 - 2018 - Paul Goldberger, Adam Blackbourn, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Linda and Guy Pieters Foundation, Saint Tropez
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In 2018, London’s Hyde Park was home to Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s latest installation: The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake). The temporary sculpture took cues from mastabas of the first urban civilizations of Mesopotamia, which were mud benches with two vertical sides, two slanted sides, and a flat top. Towering at 20 meters high, its 600 metric tons anchored to the Serpentine Lake, this waterborne project gathered 7,506 painted oil barrels to create a floating mosaic of red, white, blue, and mauve.
The most ambitious of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s barrel works to date, The London Mastaba is a precursor to the duo’s work in progress The Mastaba (Project for Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates). First conceived in 1977, The Mastaba for Abu Dhabi, if realized, would be Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s greatest achievement and only permanent large-scale work. Situated in the desert and made of 410,000 multicolored barrels, the 150-meter-high sculpture would be the largest in the world, rising hig...
The most ambitious of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s barrel works to date, The London Mastaba is a precursor to the duo’s work in progress The Mastaba (Project for Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates). First conceived in 1977, The Mastaba for Abu Dhabi, if realized, would be Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s greatest achievement and only permanent large-scale work. Situated in the desert and made of 410,000 multicolored barrels, the 150-meter-high sculpture would be the largest in the world, rising hig...
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Discover Christo and Jeanne-Claude?s latest installation: a spectacular 20-meter-high temporary sculpture made of more than 7,500 multicolored barrels, which coincides with a major exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries. Gathering photography, sketches, models, and designs, this collection is your guide to Christo and Jeanne-Claude?s barrel-made installations.
Hardcover with dusjacket, 208 pages, obblong 29x27 cm. Illustrated. ISBN 9783836574495. [Auteur: Christo, Jean-Claude / Paul Goldberger] [Pagina's: ...
Hardcover with dusjacket, 208 pages, obblong 29x27 cm. Illustrated. ISBN 9783836574495. [Auteur: Christo, Jean-Claude / Paul Goldberger] [Pagina's: ...
