Still in development after six years of work, businessman Halim Zukic announced the opening of the park in a few months and promises to offer an extraordinary experience to visitors.
Starry Night comes to life
135 years later, the very famous work of art “The Starry Night” comes to life. 10 hectares, 130,000 lavender bushes and hundreds of aromatic and medicinal plants were needed by businessman and enthusiast Halim Zukic to transform a hilly area near the village of Luznica, in the Visoko region, into a reproduction life-size of one of the most emblematic paintings of Dutch impressionism Vincent Van Gogh.
A way for Mr. Zukic to pay tribute to an artist he admires “Vincent Van Gogh belongs to us too, it's our heritage” he declared to the French press agency, relayed by FranceInfo.
This is how he took up the challenge of redrawing the spirals and wavy shapes of the paintings, a painting visible from the sky. The businessman made sure to respect the dimensions for a result even closer to the initial work, he explains “ inspired by the work, we tried to stick to the shapes and proportions, so that it looked as much like the painting as possible. And I think we succeeded”.
An unexpected inspiration
An idea that was not born yesterday. The man, passionate about art, explains that he discovered the field more than twenty years ago, during a walk in the forest while he was picking mushrooms. He then bought a plot of land to build a cabin and a small garden with rounded shapes, without any link at the time with Starry Night.
But it was only in 2018, while observing the marks left by a tractor on the lawn, that he had a revelation. The spectacle offered by nature directly inspired the man who explains “ to my eyes, these traces resembled the spirals of the painting”. It was then that, accompanied by around thirty people, he undertook the transformation of the land.
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A project in progress
To not miss anything of the work, Halim Zukic went to discover the life and work of Van Gogh. He then visited key places in the painter's life in France, he went to Arles, passing through Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, where the artist painted “The Starry Night” in 1889.
For the moment, the park is still under development, the opening to the public is planned in a few months. He explains that he “ It takes time for everything to grow”. One thing the man is currently convinced of is that the park will continue to improve over the years, he says. every year it will be more and more beautiful”.
Sources : FranceInfo, Reuters, News-24, The essential
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