United Paintings in place on summit Mount Everest
Unfortunately, we cannot offer you a witnessing picture of it, but… the United Paintings of American cartoonist Lurie have been put on Mount Everest Summit at 10.00AM at the 19th of May 2011! Congratulations to all who have been involved in this great achievement. More info to come asap.
United Paintings on their way to Everest summit
15 May 2011, the already famous art pieces of the American cartoonist Lurie are on their way to the Everest Summit. The art pieces with a weight of around 17kg are carried by three Sherpa’s led by Namgyal Sherpa who summited Everest already 8 times. The summit day is set on 19 May if the weather and the mountain allows it. More info to come soon…
Lurie’s United Painting arrived at Everest base camp
Mountain Consult is chosen to put the three panel ‘Uniting Painting’ from famous artist Ranan Lurie on the summit of Mount Everest.
The three panels, which were a part of the United Nation’s largest and only one-man art installation will be the first-ever fine art to be taken to the top of Mt. Everest by a team of Nepalese climbers of Mountain Consult.
Portions of Lurie’s a “Uniting Painting” already grace the walls of the United Nations and keep watch on the border between North and South Korea, but in the next weeks they will summit the tallest peak in the world.
Lurie, who is known around the world for his political cartoons, intends for his simple paintings to unite countries and promote good will. Parts of the “Uniting Painting,” which Lurie began in 1968, were installed at the United Nations in New York in 2005. The next year, panels were placed on the border between North and South Korea.
In 2009, the deputy prime minister of Nepal proposed bringing the painting to the top of Mount Everest. Lurie left for Nepal Wednesday, and the climbers will begin the trek to the top of the mountain on Tuesday.
“”The ‘Uniting Painting’ is art with a mission,” said Lurie in an interview with Greenwich Time last July, after “Uniting Painting” panels made it into space on a satellite launched by the Israel Space Agency.
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