Balgarianovinite.com Christo remains one of the greatest ambassadors of Bulgarian culture, responsible editor of LIK magazine Yanitsa Hristova said at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin on Monday.
She spoke at a discussion marking the 90th anniversaries of the births of Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude, as well as 30 years since the wrapping of the Reichstag, during which the German-language edition of LIK “Christo and Jeanne-Claude at 90 in Eternity” and the National Gallery exhibition “Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin (1971-1995)” were presented in a joint initiative of the Bulgarian Cultural Institute, the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) and the National Gallery.
Special guests at the event were Minister of Culture Marian Bachev, Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) Director General Kiril Valchev and National Gallery Director Anelia Nikolaeva.
Among those present were Bulgarian Ambassador to Germany Grigor Porozhanov, Metropolitan Anthony of Western and Central Europe and Father Yuliyan Angelov, chair of the Orthodox church St Tsar Boris the Baptizer in Berlin. German-Bulgarian Forum Chair Volker Berresheim was also in the audience.
More than one hundred guests attended the event at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute, mostly Germans, as well as representatives of the Bulgarian community in Berlin, including choreographer Eleonora Aleksandrova, jazz musician Vladimir Karparov, artists Vesela Grigorieva and Ivan Kostolov, writer Veso Portarski, Deutsche Welle journalist Marinela Lipcheva, Union of Composers Chair Tsenko Minkin and others.
Hristova recalled words Christo used in 1993, when he gave a press conference to 150 journalists before opening a solo exhibition in Berlin. At the time the world-famous artist said that when he began working on his project to wrap the Reichstag back in 1971, it was unthinkable to imagine that Germany would ever be reunified, let alone that Berlin would once again become its capital. He added that even if he had wrapped the Reichstag before 1989, it would have looked like a “sleeping beauty”. “Now the heart of parliamentary democracy will beat again inside it and that inspires me even more,” he said, as quoted by Hristova, noting that this is part of a news item published in LIK magazine’s themed chronology.
The responsible editor of the publication explained that in 1993 Christo said that this would be the last time he would try to obtain permission to wrap the Reichstag. The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) followed the debates, the negotiations and the permission Christo obtained to wrap the Reichstag. According to Hristova, the news items about the multi-million-strong audience that flocked to Berlin to see the “waterfall of fabric” cascading over the Reichstag are also striking.
“Christo said that the sole purpose of his art is beauty. The large-scale art project drew the attention of the entire world. Some newspaper reports said that even the fall of the Berlin Wall did not attract as much attention and excitement among people as Christo’s wrapping of the Reichstag. Locals described it as the event of the century and said that Berlin was no longer the same. Everything I have quoted is part of LIK magazine’s chronology,” the responsible editor of BTA’s magazine added.
“With the wrapping of the Reichstag, Bulgaria was mentioned in many places. To me, as someone almost the same age as this project, it seems that this turned Christo Javacheff into one of Bulgaria’s greatest cultural ambassadors to this day,” Hristova added.
The publication of LIK magazine in German is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Lidl and Kyashif.
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