<Package and Wrapped Floor>

This work is part of a series of large-scale installations conceived by Christo, often in collaboration with his wife Jeanne-Claude, starting in 1961. Here, a cotton canvas conceals a mysterious content while also covering a large floor area. Animated by folds and undulations, the fabric unfurls like a landscape. Very early on, the two artists became interested in creating monumental wrappings of iconic public buildings, a goal they achieved with the Aurelian Wall in Rome in 1974, the Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris in 1985, and the Reichstag in Berlin in 1995.