Hyde Park, London – 18th June 2018/23 September 2018
From June 18 to September 23, 2018, Christo and Jeanne- Claude’s temporary sculpture, The London Mastaba, floated atop Hyde Park’s Serpentine Lake in the center of London, United Kingdom. The temporary sculpture, Christo’s first major public outdoor work in the UK, coincided with an exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries detailing Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 60-year history of working with oil barrels.
The London Mastaba consisted of 7,506 horizontally stacked barrels on a floating platform in the Serpentine Lake. The sculpture’s floating platform was made from interlocking high-density polyethylene cubes. On top of the platform, a steel scaffolding frame was constructed on which the barrels were attached. The massive sculpture, weighing a total of 600 metric tons (660 US tons), was anchored to the lakebed with 32 anchors. Its footprint covered approximately 1% of the total surface area of the lake.
Photograph:© AXT Magazine (Architetturaxtutti)
Photograph:© AXT Magazine (Architetturaxtutti)
Photograph:© AXT Magazine (Architetturaxtutti)
