Artists want to hide the river
Yavashev Christo (Christo Javacheff) and his wife Jeanne-Claude (Jeanne-Claude) collected the silver curtain cloth 40-mile section of Arkansas River in Colorado. Such materials artists used in 1995 for the Berlin Reichstag oborachivaniya.
writes Times, the artists hope that the project «across the river» ( "Over the River") will be implemented in the 2011-meters, or 2012. They plan to get the permission of local authorities as early as 2009.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude are going on two weeks of fabric hang a few meters above the water. The fabric will be gaps and variation in the wind.
wrapping the river will cost Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 42 million dollars to implement their projects, they only use the funds earned from the sale of works by Christo.
Khristo Yavashev was born in 1935 in Bulgaria, and in 1956-m run in the West. He invented the technique of «amballyazha», ie the packaging. Christo and Jeanne-Claude was able to wrap several art museums, a closed sea-shore, near Sydney (1969), New Bridge in Paris (1985) and the Berlin Reichstag.
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