Ceiling painting

Spanish abstract artist Miquel Barcelo spent more than a year creating the 16,000-square-foot elliptical painting for the dome of ‘Hall XX’ that houses the UN’s Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. It is featuring hundreds of hanging stalactite shapes in colored shades - a ’sculptural’ painting, invading the space of the council.The Spanish government has sponsored Barcelo to do this painting with funds of teh FAD (fondos de Auyuda al desarrollo - funds to help development) FAD is part of the Spanish budget that is suposed to go to help developing countries. That sponsosrchip was of about 500.000 Euros of the total cost of the work of around 20 million.