The idea
Lots of things can be wrapped up from buildings to cars...
A covered car © Sarah Sanders
A covered building © Sarah Sanders
Textiles can be draped, hung and stretched over objects. This makes new, mysterious shapes.
Artists like Christo and Jeanne-Claude enjoy using textiles in their work too. Look at this enormous artwork called Wrapped Reichstag.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95. Photo: Wolfgang Volz © 1995 Christo Source: christojeanneclaude.net
The Reichstag building is in Berlin and it's under all that cloth! It took 100,000 square meters of silvery fabric and over fifteen kilometers (about 9 miles) of blue ropes to wrap this up! The artwork was allowed to stay for two weeks in the summer of 1995.
What an incredible sight it must have been!
The plan
Man Ray
L’Enigme d’Isidore Ducasse (1920, remade 1972)
Tate
You are going to make your own artworks using stretched textiles and found objects.
Do it!
© Sarah Sanders
- Find an object and wrap it in fabric.
- Secure the fabric by wrapping round the string and tape.
- Photograph your object. How has it changed? What does it look like now?
