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*/This is the beginning of the second stage of the "One Thousand Angels 
and One Painting" project world tour! /**//*

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The mega-painting of Lekim Ibragimov "One Thousand Angels and One 
Painting", who is a national artist of Uzbekistan, professor, honorary 
member of the Russian Academy of Art, academician of the Uzbekistan 
Academy of Arts, delegate of the World Art Council (Paris 1998), will be 
presented to the public during *1**2**-1**5**August 2013inMoscow’s 
Merchant Yard (Gostiny Dvor). His works are already exhibited in many 
different museums all over the world.
*The artist describes his painting as “visual epic”, an ancient song 
that will sound over the cities where the exhibition will take place. 
Together with a philosophical and lyrical meaning, the project has an 
important social mission of uniting the East and the West to bring 
peace, joy and hope to the people.

The famous fairy tales Arabian Nights served as an urge to start such a 
grandiose art project.

The implementation of the idea can indeed be described as unique and 
hitherto unparalleled in contemporary art. In this regard, the project 
organizers have made an application to the Guinness Book of Records and 
Russian Book of Records.

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*Some facts about the mega-painting:*

Height: 8 meters

Length: 66 meters

Area: ​​528 sq.m.

Weight of canvas and structure: 22 tons

There are 2.4 miles of steel cables in the structure.

4 days are needed for construction and installation of 1000 parts of the 
mega-painting.

The painting is exhibited globally in the cities which are included in 
the list of UNESCO World Heritage. Large squares were selected as 
exhibition space to make the accessibility to such a giant unit easy to 
everyone.

The first city in Europe to receive this wonderful mega-painting was 
Prague. It was exhibited in July 2012 in the exposition centre Incheba 
Praha. The project was supported by the Mayor of Prague. The exhibition 
attracted public attention and was discussed in publications and news 
programs of such international magazines and channels as BBC, The 
Telegraph, Huffington Post, Google News, Yahoo News, Russia 24, Channel 
Mir, Interfax, France Press, Daily News, Guinness World Records, Kiev 
Post, Uzbekistan today, Forum TV, UzA, KazInform, Cosmopolitan, 
Australia & World, etc.

The author of the painting decided to donate part of the project 
sponsorship fund to charity to help children with disabilities who live 
in cities where the exhibition of this painting takes place.

After the exhibition in Russia the project organizers plan to exhibit 
the mega-painting in China.

Company organizing the exhibition: *International Agency «Global 
Festina»* (Moscow, Russia).

Place of exhibition: Merchant Yard (Gostiny Dvor), Moscow

Date of opening: August 12, 2013

Project details are given in the following 
website:http://www.1001artproject.com/ru

Information about Lekim Ibragimov: www.lekimibragimov.com 


Detailed information about exhibition's programm read here