Art

Record attendance at Christos “Floating Piers”

More than 1.2 million people emigrated over the waters of the Italian lake Iseo. Despite the bad weather the crowd was twice as large as expected. Now Christos ended in a spectacular art project.

“The visitors should feel as if you go on the water or maybe on a Walrücken, proclaimed Christ to the website of his project. On Sunday (3.7.2016) was the last opportunity to do so in the next week, the time-consuming Installation is reduced. The three-kilometre-long and 16 metre wide footbridges connect the Islands of Monte Isola and San Paolo, in the Iseo lake, with the waterfront town of Sulzano.

According to the Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera” had expected the organizers with around 500,000 Art enthusiasts, however, during the two-week campaign, over 1.2 million Curious onlookers. “We are still amazed about the record numbers of visitors, who come to experience the Floating Piers. Every day, people come more and more,” said the technical Director of the project, Vladimir Jawaschew, even on the last exhibition weekend.

Crowds despite the rain and reduced visit times

At times the crowd was so large that the access to the lake was blocked and the trip to the floating ribs of the installation artist on the Central station of the nearby city of Brescia came to an end. Also, rain and storm were the organizers. In addition, the speech was material fatigue. Therefore, the visiting hours were restricted to allow the webs to patch. They consist of 100,000 square meters of shimmering yellow substance, which is supported by a modular, floating dock system consisting of 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes, so Christ. According to the action you want them to be as a plastic cube to be recycled.

For the world-renowned installation and concealment artist of the Floating Piers were the first large-scale project since the death of his wife, Jeanne-Claude seven years ago. The couple has been through his monumental works of art – including the wrapped Pont Neuf in Paris in 1985, and the veiling of the Reichstag in Berlin in 1995 – the world famous.

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