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Gorky Park in Moscow, opened the painting “The Awakening” created with coffee beans by Arcadia Kim, a Russian artist and sculptor. The piece features 1 million coffee beans, weighs 397 pounds and spans 30 square meters., which is a new world record for a painting from coffee beans. Each grain is glued and it took almost two weeks to complete.
The giant mosaic, created by Russian artist Arkadi Kim, beats the previous record, created by Albanian artist Saimir Strati by 88 pounds and 5 square meters.