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Oberhausen – Christo: “Big Air Package” billed as the world’s largest indoor art installation, at Oberhausen Gasometer Through December 30th, 2013

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013


Christo, Big Air Package (2013) via Reuters

Inside the hulking structure of the Oberhausen Gasometer in Oberhausen, Germany, a massive, billowing expanse of translucent fabric runs down the walls, held upright by the constant airflow of industrial fans.  A gentle, diffused light glows inside, the product of the Gasometer’s skylights shining down from above it.  This is Big Air Package, an enormous pressurized envelope of air created by the Bulgarian artist Christo specially for the Gasometer, turning its spacious, cylindrical main room into a towering column of light and space. (more…)