It's best than an Olympic pond pool, took two-and-a-half years to complete and fulfils a 40-year dream - a new mega-canvas by one of Uzbekistan's best-known artists, aggressive by "One Thousand and One Nights".
Now, the immense painting by Lekim Ibragimov is on its way to Europe, area it will be put on appearance aboriginal in the Czech Republic and again in added European countries.
Ibragimov started alive on the activity - called "One Thousand Angels and One Painting" - in 2010 and put the finishing touches on it in April.
It measures eight metres (26 feet) high, an amazing 66 metres (215 feet) long, acclimated several tonnes of acrylic and is so big it takes canicule to be installed on site.
The work's 1,000 paintings angle abandoned as alone pictures in their own right, but if put calm aswell anatomy a individual connected painting based on the archetypal oriental folk tale.
"While every piece, anniversary depicting an angel of angel, is itself a painting of abounding value, they accomplish a individual unified painting if accumulated together," the 68-year-old painter told AFP.
In anniversary of the 1,000 pictures Ibragimov has included the angel of an angel, and visitors are encouraged to seek harder in the account to "find your own guardian angel".
"In fact, the angels accept consistently been present on my paintings and this is why the mega-project is a analytic assiduity of my artistic career," said Ibragimov, who is an bookish at Uzbekistan's Arts Academy and an honorary affiliate of the Russian Academy of Arts.
The artist, who accumulated graphical and aesthetic art bond Uzbek and Chinese adorn painting styles with European colour-blending techniques, said he had been absent of such a mega-project for about four decades.
It is a massive undertaking.
With its accession equipment, the plan weighs added than 20 tonnes, with 2.4 kilometres (1.5 miles) of animate cables, and it will yield four canicule for at atomic four humans to instal its added than 500 aboveboard metres (5,500 aboveboard feet) like a behemothic arced panorama.
Most of the burden has already accomplished Prague, with several Czech companies accouterment logistical support.
The all-inclusive painting is apparent by adventurous red and dejected colours and animated besom strokes. If absolutely army it is displayed in a arced accumulation accurate by a arch abaft it, with visitors chargeless to airing from anniversary end.
Ibragimov explains the attendance of the Buddha-like abstracts and terracotta colour as a advertence to the pre-Islamic history of Central Asia.
The plan will be displayed at the Incheba Praha exhibition centre in Prague from July 9-21 with chargeless admission, according to Roman Masarik, the Czech Rebublic's top agent in Uzbekistan.
"We achievement it will be actual absorbing for abounding humans in Prague," he told AFP. "We are actual blessed that Mr Ibragimov adapted that his plan aboriginal be apparent in Prague."
Ibragimov was built-in in the Almaty arena of then-Soviet Kazakhstan but confused in the 1970s to Tashkent, area he was aggressive by Uzbekistan's eastern ability and its position on the fabulous "Silk Road" of age-old trade.
The Russia-based event-management aggregation Global Festina helped him realise the mega-project, which has appropriate a huge logistical accomplishment to ensure the artwork is transported to Europe intact.
After Prague, the mega-artwork will be displayed in Madrid, according to a Global Festina spokesman.
"We are in negotiations with the Madrid city-limits administering to affectation it in the city-limits centre, in the accessible air. The next destination could be Italy's Florence, but it depends on acclimate conditions," Ulugbek Kasimkhodjaev told AFP.
The activity has been submitted to the Guinness World Records Committee as "the world's better painting consisting of 1,000 pieces", according to Kasimkhodjaev, who argues that the artwork is different and not a mosaic.
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