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The Bulgaria born American artist Christo (1935-2020), most famous for wrapping entire buildings, such as the Pont-Neuf in Paris (1985) and the Berlin Reichstag building (1995).
This evening, 23:35 o'clock, there is a documentation honouring "Christo" on one of my most loved TV stations, ARTE, in French and German about Christo's "The Floating Piers", ...
... one of the nicest ideas, an artist ever had, because it obviously made so many spectators happy in 2016, who were able to cross this Italian lake Iséo "by walking on water" up to the small island in the center of the lake.
This documentation, which mostly shows the many difficulties of Christo and his team with bureaucracy and political circumstances for realizing such a project but also beautiful pictures, can also be found here in German and French. I do not know if ARTE offers it also in English, but maybe, you find it somewhere else under another internet address.
Here it is in German:
Christo - Walking on Water - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
Der Künstler Christo starb am 31. Mai 2020. ARTE ehrt ihn mit der Ausstrahlung des Dokumentarfilms, der dem Projekt "The Floating Piers" (Die schwimmenden Brücken) gewidmet ist, das in den 1970er Jahren mit Jeanne-Claude konzipiert und schließlich 2016 von Christo am Iséo-See in Italien...
www.arte.tv