Sulzano (AP) – As Christ suddenly appears on a boat in Lake Iseo, breaks out on the yellow bars applause. Thousands of people who just now walked through the “Floating Piers” remain standing.
You clap softly, almost reverently, in view of the fascinating masterpiece that installs the 81-year concealment artist in months of meticulous detail in the waters Has. “It is to walk like a sunbeam”, Petra says from Berlin. Time dahlias yellow, sometimes ocher, sometimes deeply orange glimmers of tensed on 220 000 float material. “So soft!” “Brilliant!” “Magical!” -. The voices that can be heard on the webs, falling over themselves with enthusiasm
“I would have imagined it more stable, but the whole thing is moving, and you really feel the waves while walking,” says Felix , who has come from the Chiemsee from. Tim from the English Oxford goes further and speaks of an “almost biblical crowd that walks through water”. The installation is not only so decided that the wave motion throughout the body had felt that she was also “visually marvelous.” – Visually amazing, complemented his companion Araminta
Like many others this Saturday also British longstanding Christo fans. But not only the followers of native Bulgarians are entranced given his latest litter. Maybe it’s the mix that makes this project so unique. Here meets Italian storybook idyll – small street cafes, colorful houses, white sail against blue water and wild clad mountains – modern art, the three kilometers long runs like light beams Lake
“It will feel as if you walk on the back of a whale,” Christ had described his idea had been long before the webs are screwed together and secured with 190 anchors of divers on the bottom of the lake. In fact, the feeling is almost comparable to anything that people experience in or on the water otherwise. “I want the people the lands with all the senses,” Christo said the day before the opening. Best barefoot, he recommended – and many followed the advice of Maestro
The walkways from the village of Sulzano on the mainland first to Monte Isola, the largest island in a southern European inland waters, and from there to the smaller. Eiland San Paolo, the private ownership of arms producers dynasty Beretta is.
“It is the first time that we can reach the mainland by a bridge,” says Signora Luciana, on the Monte Isola a business of fishing nets inspired craftsmanship operates. “Too bad that the ridges are gone soon as we could get used to it”, she smiles and looks happy into their bulging with buyers shop. However, many residents of the island were initially skeptical, says Mayor Fiorello Turla. “But now they admire the artwork with his mouth open.”
For many in the region, Christos project has already proved to be a gold mine, he has directed the attention of world public suddenly on Lake Iseo. Long standing of the shadow of the more famous northern Italian waters such as Lake Garda or Lake Como. The tourism in Sulzano, the nearby Iseo and other lakeside town, the “floating piers” now probably bring long after their removal on July 3 even more revenue.
Christo, the most of the time has worked his life with his 2009 deceased wife Jeanne-Claude, the floating bridges has financed again out of pocket – as his other memorable works, the wrapped Reichstag in Berlin 1995 about or veiled Pont Neuf in Paris in 1985. He financed the ephemeral installations mainly from the sale of sketches and pictures, to whom he has worked in recent months tirelessly in New York, and from the recycling of the materials used.
the “floating Piers” are free of admission, they are accessible around the clock now. On Monday, the next full moon is on, many nocturnal visitors, making it still a special atmospheric tidbits guaranteed.
Meanwhile distribute Christos employees on the lands small pieces of yellow substance, as a souvenir and reminder of this special art event. Among them is Matthias Osthaus, who helps with the project for a week. “Like all people from the team, I’m getting paid for, which is in Christ as usual,” said the Berliner, who follows the impressive major projects of the artist for a long time with interest. “For me this is a dream come true, something you probably experienced only once,” he explains moves. “Christ is building the bridges after 16 days again, but in us they live on.”
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