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Christo: 'Everything in the world belongs to somebody'

Christo, the artist known for wrapping the Reichstag talks us through his process and the difficulties that come with having his artistic interventions publicly debated by thousands, before they even exist

Christo talks about the process and difficulties of getting permission from the authorities to make artworks, comparing it to playing poker. Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude's public interventions have included wrapping two-and-a-half kilometres of coast and cliffs up to 26 metres high in Little Bay, Sydney, and covering the Reichstag in Berlin with 100,000 m2 of fireproof polypropylene fabric.

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