Bulgar sanatçı Christo ve 2009 yılında kaybettiği eşi Jeanne Claude tarafından tasarlanan enstalasyon, İtalya’nın Iseo Gölü kıyılarını, üç
Three kilometres of saffron-coloured pathways temporarily connect the shore of Italy’s Lake Iseo to islands at its centre in this installation by Bulgarian artist Christo and his passed wife, Jeanne Claude.
Visitors can walk from Sulzano on the lake’s eastern edge to the island of Monte Isola. They can also use two paths to reach the islet of San Paolo, which is encircled by the pontoons.
The shimmering orange-yellow fabric that is draped over the modules continues for an extra 1.5 kilometres along the streets of Sulzano and the village of Peschiera Maraglio on the other side. The piers measure 16 metres wide and rise approximately 50 centimetres above the water, with sides sloping gently down to the surface. A modular system of 200,000 high-density polyethylene cubes forms the walkways, which are designed to move up and down with the movement of the waves.
“The mountains surrounding the lake will offer a bird’s-eye view of The Floating Piers, exposing unnoticed angles and altering perspectives,” said Christo.
The 81-year-old artist-whose full name is Christo Vladimirov Javacheff-is renowned for the large-scale fabric installations he created with wife, French artist Jean-Claude, who died in 2009.
Together they wrapped Berlin’s Reichstag building in material, and strung 39 kilometres of fabric between giant posts across California. Their last large-scale project was The Gates-7,503 nylon gates installed around New York’s Central Park in 2005.
