Wrapping is not a shtick for these artists. Christo and Jeanne-Claude seek to calm the riot of visual data, to refresh old perceptions, to briefly halt the endless proliferation of "products" that assault the eye. Once you "wrap" something and hide its appearance, you rob it of its defining properties. Now it is up to the viewer to imagine how the covered thing really looks. And the viewer can imagine whatever he or she wants; the individual imagination is king. But every "wrapping" has a different character, depending on what is being wrapped. In the case of the Reichstag, the place where laws are debated and made, the pair's concealment has the effect of shattering the pretense of transparency. Real power always operates in secret, behind the scenes. By making the Reichstag a secret, the two artists make public the ultimately secret nature of the Reichstag.