Too late now for you to go and see it and it was fully booked as
soon as it was sent. I had the privilege yesterday to assist at a private
screening yesterday of "Bridge to Christo" and "The Frontier of
our dreams"
One depicts
his biggest and latest project of a floating bridge or pier in Italy and the other the relationship with his
brother who remained in Bulgaria.
They are both alive and well and there is a third brother who is not himself an
artist and was barely talked about.
Fascinating
talk ensued after the screenings and directors and screenwriters were answering
a Q&A session.
Everyone
remembers the huge works and the economic impact but what of the environmental
impact? This was not addressed.
The
presentation by Phillip Bergson was without fail despite some technical
problems in the projection.
Audience
reacted with emotion as to the relationship between brothers living in very
different circumstances in communism and capatalism. The artist both glorified
in each systems.
Did the
wrapping stem from the fact that their father was an industrialist who was accused
and subsequently arrested as a saboteur. Huge wads of fabrics were burned down.
It is uncanny that Christo chose to wrap
monumental projects all of which were self financed through the sale of his
work of art.
