Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 21:01:26 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Politics of Cristo............


On Sun, 5 Jul 1998 UZS106-AT-IBM.rhrz.uni-bonn.de wrote:

> Well, whats political with Cristo ??
> 
> 
	Christo is not political in the paritisan sense. Perhaps his work 
is more of a civic art than political in the normal sense. Its more like 
urban planning, as he says, which is of course very political.
	What I like about it especially is that its not aggressive and 
not based on putting anybody down (the "bourgeoisie" for instance). It 
involves bringing people together and getting them working on a common 
project. His work is also exemplary in that it reaches a wider audience 
than most artists and gets talked about, discussed in the wider community.
	It is also uplifting, by all accounts, and people enjoy 
participating in it. In that sense it perhaps gives us a larger sense of 
what community could be. That's very political, isn't it?

cheers,
George
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	George Free		Toronto, Canada		aw570-AT-torfree.net
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