Bana ba Africa (People of Africa) painting their future • One million paintings by African artists • All 53 African countries • The Biggest Painting In the world ( one square kilometer) • Exposing Africa to Africans and to the rest of the world.
A total of one million prints will be reproduced from original paintings from all over Africa to form THE BIGGEST PAINTING IN THE WORLD collage, measuring 1km². These combined with artistic land architecture and integrated large sculptures will form The Biggest Art Installation in the World, which will be entered into the GUINESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS.
Be part of the motion We will create a social cohesion campaign to encourage mass participation. People of all age groups from a wide range of communities; schools, arts Centres, Social Integration Centres, Rehabilitation Centres and professional artists, will participate in painting their future towards and beyond 2010. This will include artists from the diaspora. Entries will be collected and judged by a panel of professional artists and curators.
You can help by using your own gift of imagination – and consider in what way you, and the other influencers around you, could stand to benefit, and help others benefit, from this initiative.
Leave your fingerprint – go on make a difference.
As the artists art piece is digitally captured, it is posted and can be viewed on The Biggest Painting in the World – website. Here potential investors, art appreciators and the global public at large will be able to log on and bid for the art piece, or pieces they most desire. The art will be graded into various categories to best represent the artist’s levels of competency, with a minimum bid set for each. On successful sale the artist receives 35% and the balance proportionally divided into managing the project and the African Artist Development Fund (AADF). But the benefit to the artist goes further than that and here is how...
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| 22.02.2011 Biggest Painting team in Beaufort West next week |
Members of The Biggest Painting will visit Beaufort West next week again. This time talks with officials from the Municipality, the Tourism Board, guesthouses and venues. This will prepare for the Biggest Painting workshop with participants from all over the African continent this year. |
| 29.09.2010 The Biggest Painting at the Karoo Highlands Route |
| The Biggest Painting team will take part at the launch of the Karoo Highlands Route in Carnavon on the 2nd of October. This is an event of the Organisation "Open Africa" which has already launched many routes on the African continent. The Biggest Painting site will become one of the main attractions on this tour from late 2011 on! See http://www.openafrica.org/ |
| 15.05.2010 Indaba 2010 |
The Biggest Painting Team just came back from the Indaba, the biggest tourism fair in Africa, where the project was presented to key-roleplayers from the tourism industry! |
| 17.05.2010 Beaufort West as THE VENUE |
| The Biggest Painting in the World collage with a size of 140 soccer fields, will be hosted in Beaufort West, Cape Karoo, Western Cape, situated along the N1 from Johannesburg to Cape Town. Our next step will be a workshop where we will invite representatives from African countries to participate in the detailled planning of the collection of the paintings in their countries. |
