The project will be exhibited in different parts of the world with only purpose – to give people hope and joy. There is an angel on each of the thousand painting. And we believe that among thousands angels everyone will be able to find his own guardian-angel.
26 ft. height – 216 ft. long – 48500 lb. weight - 5700 ft2 area - 1.5 ml. of steel cable - 4 days for installation.
Each of the 1000 paintings is a separate story written in a picturesque calligraphic manner.
9 July, 2012 the exhibition of mega-canvas “One thousand angels and one painting” was opened. The exhibition was from 9 to 21 of July, 2012. Lekim’s 1000 angels are in the heart of Europe!
The idea is exposing the mega-canvas in the Gostiny Dvor. The peculiarity of this one of the most beautiful architectural monuments of Moscow is the possibility to implement almost all creative ideas inside.
The second stage of «Thousand Angels and One Painting» mega-canvas journey has been completed and it is time to sum up.
From 12 to 15 August, everyone could come to Gostiny Dvor in Moscow to witness the scale of the project and among the thousands of angels to find her . The second stage of the journey pattern in many ways surpassed the first. This is an unprecedented number of visitors, as well as close attention to such prominent media as EuroNews, Russia 24 , Culture , Russia Today, the agency Itar-Tass, and many others, art critics and art historians. Here is what they write about the project "One Thousand Angels and One Painting»
Magic tales from «One thousand and one nights» reached us from the remote past. With amazing perfection they reflect an extremely delicate understanding of the world by the peoples of orient, expressing this understanding by means of effortless wordplay.
By virtue of the translation by Antoine Galland, Europe is acquainted with this greatest monument of verbal art of oriental peoples for more than 250 years. «One thousand and one nights» have largely influenced the world literature and art. Oriental tales were inspiring Charles Montesquieu, Christoph Wieland, Wilhelm Hauff, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Dickens, and Alexander Pushkin. A whimsical ornament of stories, profoundness and extremely delicate poetry of the tales used to be independent from time: in our century of information technologies they continue to attract and inspire painters. Thus, the project «Thousand and one painting» is in the same raw with the pieces of art flavoring the spicy aroma of «One thousand and one nights».
Epigraph: I was born in the terrestrial body.
Spirit of mine, where are you from?
- How would you describe your creative activity?
- I would leave this complicated task to the art critics and historians. However, many of them have common opinion that my creative activity is a fusion of cultures, and of eastern and western traditions. As far as I am concerned, I prefer to focus my attention on the process of creation, which takes a lot of time. Creative impulse can be evanescent, but true oeuvre can only be created when such an impulse is continued for thirty or forty years.
- What are your sources of inspiration?
- My main source of inspiration is the ancient art of the East, but I am also searching for it in the contemporary European art. During my student years I have been closely studying the oeuvres of such French painters as Claude Monet, Henri Matisse and Paul Gauguin. An amazing thing is that while each of them was pursuing his personal career of artist, he was also showing preference in some national culture in which he was particularly interested.
The Project «Thousand angels and one painting» is a giant oeuvre of a world-famous painter Lekim Ibragimov, whose artistic style is distinguished by the original manner of self-expression. The works of this painter are recognized for their poetical delicacy, fragile and often almost transparent brush strokes, richness of color nuances and tonal elaboration. The creative activity of the master is closely connected to the ancient oriental culture of Central Asia, which has helped him to gain a deserved recognition of the spectators.
Canvas of more than 528 square meters in size was inspired by the legends and events of the past, which have kept a right to be considered immortal. 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..
Surprisingly, but Lekim Ibragimov had no prerequisites for beginning his creative activity and becoming world-famous. He was born in 1945 in a small village (Kichik Dehan village of the Uygur district of Almaty region in Kazakhstan) in the family of ordinary school teachers. There were no museums or art clubs in the area where he lived. However, his parents were investing their souls in fostering Lekim. His father was fond of reading and this hobby has defined the live of his son. In the books brought by his father, Lekim, being a boy, managed to discern his true vocation. His complicated path to become the artist has started when he began copying the book illustrations. It was followed by designing the wall newspapers during his school years school. And when, Lekim decides to stake it all. So, in 1962 he goes to Almaty trying to enter the art school. It was not surprising that he has failed the exam: I just was not prepared, explains Lekim.
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