![Un disegno del progetto di Christo “The Mastaba” pensato per Londra](http://www.artslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/christo-londra-2018-590x368.jpg)
“Varata” oggi, 21 giugno, la piattaforma di Christo a Londra. 7.506 barili di petrolio galleggiano nel lago Serpentine all’interno di Hyde Park. E’ l’ultimo progetto di Christo – che inaugura questa sera dalle 19.30 alle 22 – a due anni da quello del Lago di Iseo “The Floating Piers”. La nuova struttura è ispirata alle “mastabe”, monumentali tombe a tumulo dell’antico Egitto. E’ alta una ventina di metri e pesa 500 tonnellate. I colori dominanti sono il bianco, il rosso e il blu, come richiamo alla bandiera inglese.
Ecco alcune immagini della Serpentine Gallery e il video di un talk del 2016 dove lo stesso Christo racconta alcuni suoi progetti: The Floating Piers (lago d’Iseo, Italia, 2014-16), Over the River (progetto per il fiume Arkansas, in Colorado) e The Mastaba (progetto per Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
![United Arab Emirates, 1979 Christo and Jeanne-Claude during their first trip to the United Arab Emirates Photo: Wolfgang Volz © 1979 Christo](http://www.artslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Schermata-2018-06-25-alle-14.36.27-590x383.png)
Christo and Jeanne-Claude during their first trip to the United Arab Emirates
Photo: Wolfgang Volz
© 1979 Christo
![Christo Photo: Wolfgang Volz](http://www.artslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Schermata-2018-06-25-alle-14.36.20-590x392.png)
Photo: Wolfgang Volz
![Christo and Jeanne-Claude The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park 2016 - 2018 © Christo Photo: Wolfgang Volz](http://www.artslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Schermata-2018-06-25-alle-14.37.01-590x391.png)
The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park 2016 – 2018
© Christo
Photo: Wolfgang Volz
![Christo and Jeanne-Claude The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park 2016 - 2018 © Christo Photo: Wolfgang Volz](http://www.artslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Schermata-2018-06-25-alle-14.36.13-590x391.png)
The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park 2016 – 2018
© Christo
Photo: Wolfgang Volz
![Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wall of Barrels - The Iron Curtain, Rue Visconti, Paris, 1961-62 Courtesy of the artist Photo: Jean-Dominique Lajoux © 1962 Christo](http://www.artslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Schermata-2018-06-25-alle-14.36.37-590x572.png)
Wall of Barrels – The Iron Curtain, Rue Visconti, Paris, 1961-62
Courtesy of the artist
Photo: Jean-Dominique Lajoux
© 1962 Christo
![Christo 303 barrels Construction (Project for Lake Michigan – 1968) Collage, 1967 47.6 x 54.6 cm Wax crayon, enamel paint and photostat on card Courtesy of the artist Photo: André Grossmann © 1967 Christo](http://www.artslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Schermata-2018-06-25-alle-14.36.52-590x525.png)
303 barrels Construction (Project for Lake Michigan – 1968)
Collage, 1967 47.6 x 54.6 cm
Wax crayon, enamel paint and photostat on card
Courtesy of the artist
Photo: André Grossmann
© 1967 Christo