damage the trust of many citizens in the stature of our democratic history and culture satiny macuntil christo it was born in a provincial beaucaire in textile city his father a chemicals manufacturer recognised 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 tower filled with air the documenter arctic submission in castle christie financed his projects in self refusing to be influenced by sponsors. coming from former communist country i will never never know something for some reason i went to all the things because i like to do it i have in stoppable urge to do this but cristo lights the spectacular he hung a giant turned curtain across the valley in colorado to give a new appreciation of the landscape the scale of his projects was often huge he put up a 40 kilometer long night on fence in california and surrounded