Artwork Description
Christo and Jeanne-Claude – 5,600 Cubicmeter Package, Project for Documenta 4, Kassel, 1986 (From the portfolio For Joseph Beuys)
Dimensions: 31.5 x 23.75″ paper
Year: 1968
Medium: collotype and silkscreen with collage (photos, tape, polyurethane and twine), on rag paper
Edition: AP 11/30
This sculpture in this artwork was erected in Kassel, Germany, in 1968. It was part of Documenta 4, and became the largest inflatable structure ever erected until that time, without an interior skeleton. The collaged photoghap/lithograph artwork includes an image of Joseph Beuys helping to erect the sculpture. It was included in a portfolio in honor of Joseph Beuys.