The Bulgarian-born artist Christo (1935-2020) said that his projects to pack monuments such as the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin were "a cry for artistic freedom," that they had a "nomadic" quality and that "they come and sell and leave forever." They were, he said, a source of "joy and beauty." "Like any genuine work of art, they have no purpose: they are not a message, they are not a symbol, they are just art," asserted the artist, who always worked together with his wife, Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009). Be that as it may, Christo and Jeanne-Claude were unable to carry out their project to pack the Columbus monument in Barcelona with 2,000 meters of pink fabric, as the Barcelona gallery Prats Nogueras Blanchard (Méndez Nuñez, 14) at an exhibition of his unrealized projects.