The day starts slowly and gray on Lake Iseo. During the night from hundreds in the streets of Sulzano on the shores of the northern Italian lake. Because rumor has it that at night the doors to Christos “Floating Piers” are opened. But the work of art seems to float silently at dawn over the lake. And Christo, its creator is not even to imagine, let alone to see.
Author: Alfons Kaiser, Editor responsible for the department “Germany and the world” and the BBC magazine.
7:18 people start to clap before the barricades, hooting, whistling and singing. Then, the first cries “aprire” (open), formulated yet discreetly in the infinitive. To 7:39 increased calls. Now it is “apri”, ie already in the command form. Be it that the work in the background are finally done or that you want to risk a popular uprising: To 7:42 the time has come, and the people rush through the alley and run on the eternally long orange pier. The first comment that is heard: “E bellissimo!”
A wonderful form of cultural diplomacy
A cameraman provides a stepladder to the techno fabric. a folder Quick is there, which prohibits it. So certainly also the guardians of the Lord do not seem to be whether the shaky construction holds. The people do not care: you encounter cheers from, a woman throws herself to the floor and kisses the cloth, others take off their shoes to barefoot to go beyond the web as once Jesus across the water
The American. Ambassador in Berlin, John B. Emerson, belongs with his wife to the First. “It’s the ultimate interactive art”, he exclaims. Not only is he proud that this has created an artist from New York here. He is happy about the contribution of his second favorite country, “German technology has made this possible,” says Emerson, who is completely private here with his wife and with friends. “It is a wonderful form of cultural diplomacy”, he says, seems the variety of political diplomacy very enjoy.
“Corpo di Cristo”? The man is right
The German contribution is from the art of photography of Christo confidant Wolfgang Volz, to the guests. From art philistines to weekenders thousands have come from Germany alone this weekend. Also very early in the water the Berlin PR legend Isa von Hardenberg: “It rocks pretty, but there are wonderful impressions.”
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Everywhere along the route cafes, ice cream shops, hot dog stands, souvenir shops: This artwork is also a huge shindig. An employee distributes small square pieces of cloth and calls “corpo di Cristo” ( “Christ’s body”), as in the church. Everyone laughs, but a bit it is also so. Beautiful could the man with the gray hair and the dark Christo-Habit the quasi-religious nature of the event not put into words
equal surrounded: Christo after the opening of its new plant Photogallery
But it is only the prophet. For since emerged from the early morning mist but actually the creator himself to. In recent days, he was mainly on the water on the road, so the boat to direct the helper. Now he is walking on the Jell-pontoon towards Sulzano, and immediately surround him twenty, a hundred, finally two hundred people clap, whistle and shout: “Grazie, Christ!” “Bravo, Christo,”
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All after him
the artist himself but seems not to feel comfortable: So many people only one hundred square meters – is the floating bridge to withstand that? Christo looks battered after months of work. Yesterday he also fell and now a bruise on his cheek. And he acts as old as he is 81 years gray, small, fragile – and quite ready
“How do you feel now, Christ?” The answer could not be monosyllabic:. “No, no, no! “He wants people to continue and spread. But all stick to him. So he goes going, walking briskly, towards Sulzano, and the convoy runs behind. The web is shaking, the water splashes on the edge, the sun rises, and Christ is gone
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