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...
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