Kazakh artist to showcase painting weighing 22 tons

The painting weighs 22 tons and has an area of 528 square meters. Its height is 8 meters and length - 66 meters. Installation of the art-project takes four days. This giant masterpiece of art is a fusion of the ancient and modern art and consists of thousand and one paintings. Each of those small paintings is a completed piece of art by its content, and is individual by its thematic. Each painting has its own plot and composition and is drawn in a very calligraphic style. According to the decision of the author and the organizers of the event, part of the proceeds from the sponsorship will be donated to children with disabilities. The art-project "Thousand angels and one painting" is an incarnation of the centuries-old wisdom, reflected in the well-known oriental tales from "One thousand and one nights" and in a magic of their numerical symbolism. The painter embodies in his oeuvres some kind of the desire to raise the veil of secrecy and mystical knowledge, of the charming beauty of the traditional oriental art, full of mystery and energy. Lekim Ibragimov was born in 1944 in the village of Kichik Dekhan, Uighur district of Almaty region. He graduated from the Almaty Art College. The painter is a Professor, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Academician of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan, delegate to the World Congress of Artists (Paris, 1998), People's Artist of Uzbekistan.