Christo (b. 1935)

“The river is born over the mountains when the snow is melting, with brooks meeting together to create a river with white waters and tranquil waters, and the river is used for a variety of recreational purposes, like rafting, canoeing, boating. (…). The fabric is not in identical panels, there are different panels at different heights and that creates almost a river of fabric. A river of fabric over the river, of course. It is luminous fabric, inside we have a great shade, but the light that passes through creates this luminous transparency coming from the two sides like in a cathedral, on the left and right of the banks of the river.”
–Christo