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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Dalya Alberge

Lost ‘cloud’ of artist who wrapped the Reichstag to be created in UK gallery

Christo smiling as people view his wrapped-up Reichstag
Christo in front of the wrapped Reichstag in Berlin in 1995. Photograph: Lutz Schmidt/Reuters

Christo once wrapped up the Reichstag, suspended a curtain across a Colorado valley and covered up the Pont Neuf in Paris. Now, six years after the artist’s death, a London gallery is to create a monumental installation he designed in 1968, using a detailed scale model and drawings that had been presumed lost until their chance discovery.

Christo had imagined a vast, internally illuminated suspended form, like a cloud, but technical constraints meant the plan was never brought to fruition.

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