Wrapped Floors, 1983
Lithograph on Arches Cover White mounted on museum board, with collage of hand painted cloth and brown wrapping paper, staples, 57 x 72 cm (22½ x 28½ in). Edition: 100 + XXV + 20 A.P., signed, numbered.
This edition depicts Christo’s Wrapped Floors, Project for Haus Lange Museum. By covering the windows with wrapping paper and draping the floors in lavish folds of fabric, he transformed the sober interior of the building designed by Mies van der Rohe in the 1920s into a new beauty of silence and emptiness that could be reminiscent of de Chirico’s mute aesthetic.
