Installation Art- Contd.

The greatest and most spectacular installation art created by any artist was 'Valley Curtain' by the Bulgarian Christo. He hung a huge orange curtain across a canyon in California. It was civil, structural and what not engineering meeting art! Somewhat like what Indian born British artist Anees Kapoor is doing. Unfortunately the valley curtain was torn apart by strong winds within hours of it being hung. Christo had also wrapped a million square feet of the Australian coast-line in plastic! He must have had immense persuassive skills to arrange for the mind-boggling logistics involved with such projects. Anees Kapoor's installations also cost millions of dollars and yet they are dismantled after a certain period of time. But then we live in clever times and I am sure someone most be making money somewhere. If Christo ( he passed away I believe) had kept the torn pieces of the Valley Curtain he, or someone, could have made a killing today, it is such an iconic piece in the history of post-modern art. No one makes art for the sake of art these days, just as no one sings for the sake of singing, or plays cricket for the love of the game. Someone had described the British as a nation of shop-keepers. Today everyone is a shop-keeper. All nations, organisations, individuals. Shop-keepers one and all!
Bye for now,
Uday