The artist Okuda is already in Ibiza. Last week, several workers painted the road surface of Santa Agnès street white, where the artist Okuda San Miguel is expected to start painting his mural on the ground.
The work, whose 371,000 eurosthe project should have been started by now, but the rains of the last few weeks have delayed this project, as the humidity makes it difficult for the paint to adhere well to the road surface.
Okuda is in the West End this Wednesday morning, where he is has already begun to immortalize his work. The artist, dressed in a colorful costume to match his work, has begun to mark with thick markers the ground of Santa Agnès street to paint his mural and is already drawing the sketch.
In total, the Cantabrian artist will intervene in 160 meters of a street which has been sporting awning-like canvases decorated with his designs for some time now. In addition, the lower part of the street is also fenced off while waiting for the painting process to begin.
As Okuda announced two months ago, he will be using a hundred different colors to completely change the face of this central street of Sant Antoni.
This artistic intervention “will transform the area into a painting, with a lively and enveloping painting in which art will act as a bridge between different realities and as the author of urban regeneration, fostering a sense of belonging”, as explained Neus Mateu, Councilor for Public Works, Infrastructure and Public Safety of the City Council of Sant Antoni, during her visit to Fitur.
The intention of the Consistory is that the work is “the first step” for the regeneration of the West End. “I want people to walk through my paintings,” said the artist about this intervention, a kind of symbolic carpet, during the presentation in Madrid.
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