[00:01.28]Two or three new projects are currently
[00:03.58]being developed by Christo and his team.
[00:06.12]One of them is in Colorado in the USA
[00:08.66]where the Arkansas River will be covered
[00:11.07]by 10 kilometres of luminous,
[00:13.59]translucent fabric.
[00:15.42]The fabric is going to be suspended
[00:17.30]above the river so that the work of art
[00:19.72]can be seen from both above and below.
[00:22.91]Thousands of people will be needed to complete
[00:25.43]this feat of enginnering.
[00:27.47]Christo manages to do all this
[00:29.54]without being given any money-
[00:31.49]his projects are financed completely
[00:33.70]by the sale of his drawings
[00:35.53]through galleries and over the Internet.
[00:38.32]Christo's works of art are dismantled
[00:40.71]after only two or three weeks,
[00:42.86]but hundreds of visitors manage to see them.
[00:45.31]When The Reichstag was being displayed it
[00:48.15]attracted huge numbers of visitors
[00:50.34]from around the world.
[00:51.95]However, his work still tends to be criticized.
[00:55.60]"What's the point of it all?
[00:57.37]Why bother when it takes so long?"
[00:59.77]Christo replies that their work
[01:01.77]is a kind of architecture and they use space,
[01:05.33]light and texture to make beautiful things.
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