The Mastaba, London, Christo & Jean Claude Tank Top

Christo created a temporary sculpture in Hyde Park, London, titled The London Mastaba. It was floating on the Serpentine Lake from June 18 to September 23, 2018. Since the late 1960s, Christo had sought a suitable site for a floating Mastaba. The temporary sculpture in Hyde Park consisted of 7,506 horizontally stacked oil barrels on a floating platform in the Serpentine Lake. It was 20 meters high x 30 meters wide x 40 meters long. The standard 55 gallon barrels were specifically fabricated and painted for this sculpture. The sides of the barrels, visible on the top and on the two slanted walls of the sculpture, were painted red and white. The ends of the barrels, visible on the two vertical walls, were different hues of red, blue, and m...