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Christo and Jeanne-Claude – The Mastaba Project for Kunstverein Köln, 1986. Silkscreen and photo-collage. Mounted in plexiglass box. This temporary sculpture was constructed of 1.000 purpose made oil barrels for the exhibition „Die 60er Jahre – Kölns Weg zur Kunstmetropole – Vom Happening zum Kunstmarkt“, organised by the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, 31. August – 16. November 1986. This collage was part of an edition of 200, there were also 50 AP printed. Originally these prints were sold together with an oil barrel from the sculpture, original oil barrel included.

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This artwork is a silkscreen / collage of the proposed – not yet executed – wrapping of the Figures of the Aphai temple on the island of Aegina (Greece) exhibited in the Glyptothek Munich Museum. The entire proposed project consist of the wrapping of all the Classical sculptures in the Glyptothek. Two more silkscreens are made by Christo and Jeanne-Claude of this subject: Wrapped Statues, Sleeping Fawn, Project for the Glyptothek, Munich, 2001 and Wrapped Roman Sculptures, Project for Die Glyptothek, München,1991.

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