in the stature of our democratic history and culture shock in the country christo it was born in bro vo a provincial beaucaire in textile city his father a chemicals manufacturer recognized his son's talent early in life and sent him for drawing lessons he studied at the fine arts academy in the capital sofia in 1956 he fled eastern europe 1st going to vienna and then paris to find his own artistic direction he began rapping cans and bottles and in 1968 became known to the wider german public with an 85 metre high it's how a filled with air the documenter arctic submission in castle. always financed his projects himself refusing to be influenced by sponsors. coming from former companies i will never never do something well some reason i wouldn't call it it's because i like to do it i have in stoppable urge to do this project christo lights the spectacular he hung a giant orange curtain across the valley in colorado to give a new appreciation of the landscape the scale of his. rejects was often huge he put up a 40 kilometer long night on fence in california and surrounded entire islands