Christo: The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake) 2018
Christo
Christo: The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake) 2018
Giclée print
Dimensions: 55 x 63 cm
Signed by the artist
To celebrate Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries and their first outdoor public art project in the UK, Christo has produced a second signed print about The London Mastaba. Christo donated these prints to Serpentine Galleries and will receive no income from their sales.
The London Mastaba captured the world’s imagination during the summer months of 2018.
Comprising 7,506 coloured barrels floating on the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park, the temporary sculpture was 20 meters high x 30 meters wide (at the 60° slanted walls) x 40 meters long.
This hand-signed print by the artist, depicts one of Christo’s collages for The London Mastaba which was featured in the Serpentine Galleries exhibition from 19 June to 9 September 2018. Christo’s original preparatory drawings and collages are fundamental to his process of conceiving and developing works in public spaces. Christo also sells his original works to fund the temporary art projects. During the lead up to the completion of the sculpture, he created 50 works on paper, often combining photography by Wolfgang Volz with a variety of media and technical data. Strikingly detailed and precise, this new print of a collage captures the monumentality, practicality and vision of Christo’s temporary intervention on the Serpentine lake.
'The temporary quality of the projects is an aesthetic decision. Our works are temporary in order to endow the works of art with a feeling of urgency to be seen, and the love and tenderness brought by the fact that they will not last. Those feelings are usually reserved for other things such as our childhood and our own life. We want to offer this feeling of love and tenderness to our works, as an added value and as an additional aesthetic quality.'
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 2005
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Christo
Christo: The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake) 2018
Giclée print
Dimensions: 55 x 63 cm
Signed by the artist
To celebrate Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries and their first outdoor public art project in the UK, Christo has produced a second signed print about The London Mastaba. Christo donated these prints to Serpentine Galleries and will receive no income from their sales.
The London Mastaba captured the world’s imagination during the summer months of 2018.
Comprising 7,506 coloured barrels floating on the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park, the temporary sculpture was 20 meters high x 30 meters wide (at the 60° slanted walls) x 40 meters long.
This hand-signed print by the artist, depicts one of Christo’s collages for The London Mastaba which was featured in the Serpentine Galleries exhibition from 19 June to 9 September 2018. Christo’s original preparatory drawings and collages are fundamental to his process of conceiving and developing works in public spaces. Christo also sells his original works to fund the temporary art projects. During the lead up to the completion of the sculpture, he created 50 works on paper, often combining photography by Wolfgang Volz with a variety of media and technical data. Strikingly detailed and precise, this new print of a collage captures the monumentality, practicality and vision of Christo’s temporary intervention on the Serpentine lake.
'The temporary quality of the projects is an aesthetic decision. Our works are temporary in order to endow the works of art with a feeling of urgency to be seen, and the love and tenderness brought by the fact that they will not last. Those feelings are usually reserved for other things such as our childhood and our own life. We want to offer this feeling of love and tenderness to our works, as an added value and as an additional aesthetic quality.'
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 2005
Please note: If you order a framed Edition, please allow a 2-3 week turnaround for the bespoke frame to be made until your order is ready.
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Christo
Christo (b.1935 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria). He left Bulgaria in 1956, first to Prague, Czechoslovakia, and then escaped to Vienna, Austria, in 1957, then moved to Geneva, Switzerland. In 1958, Christo went to Paris, where he met Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, who became his wife and life partner in the creation of monumental environmental works of art. Jeanne-Claude passed away on November 18, 2009. Christo died on May 31, 2020 at his home in New York City, where he lived for 56 years. From early wrapped objects to monumental outdoor projects, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s art transcended the traditional bounds of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Their best known works were: Wrapped Coast near Sydney (1968–69), Valley Curtain in Colorado (1970–72), Running Fence in California (1972–76), Surrounded Islands in Miami (1980–83), The Pont Neuf Wrapped in Paris (1975–85), The Umbrellas in Japan and California (1984–91), Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin (1971–95), The Gates in New York’s Central Park (1979–2005), The Floating Piers at Italy’s Lake Iseo (2014–16) and The London Mastaba on London’s Serpentine Lake (2016–18). Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s team completed L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, Paris, 1961–2021, and then turned their focus on finishing the artists’ only permanent, large-scale public artwork: The Mastaba, started in 1977 and still in progress.
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