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Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Barrels and The Mastaba 1958–2018
In 2018, London 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 civilisations of Mesopotamia, which were mud benches with two vertical sides, two slanted sides and a flat top.
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 realised, would be their greatest achievement and only permanent large-scale work. Situated in the desert and made of 410,000 multicoloured barrels, the 150-meter-high sculpture would be the largest in the world, rising higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Hardcover
208 pages
Dimensions: height 29 x width 27 cm
ISBN: 9783836573450
Publisher: TASCHEN
Weight: 1.9 kg
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