The work was created on the occasion of the Contemporary exhibition in Rome. The artist creates an unforgettable intervention for the city: wraps the Aurelian walls. His is a very strong provocation, an unusual way of bringing art to the city. But above all, it is the place to do the work: Rome, a sacred city and cradle of classical art, is invested with contemporaneity. Christo wants to draw attention to a process of metamorphosis, to the reality and mystery of the object, which today's world no longer allows us to see. His speech broadens the art audience by involving everyone, both those who work on the project and those who pass by. In this way he allows man to read reality in a different way, revealing what is not seen or what is not known to see. His works are negations: by packaging he excludes from view, but at the same time he emphasizes a landscape object or a monument, underlining the usual (now made invisible by habit) giving it a new meaning, giving it back a dignity that the improper use of society had denied it. .