Okuda San Miguel is one of the most prominent global artists of recent times. His murals, art installations, exhibitions, sculptures and paintings can be found all over the world with the same message of diversity. His colourful works seek to make a positive impact, inspire communities and blur the boundaries between different cultures.
Sportswear designed by Okuda San Miguel
With this same philosophy, Okuda San Miguel has joined forces with the basketball club Movistar Estudiantes in “Siente los Kolores”, an initiative to promote the values of sport through art. As part of this project, the artist has designed a capsule collection of sportswear that mixes his characteristic and colourful geometric prints with street style garments and sports equipment. A bomber jacket, a tracksuit, balls, socks, a tote bag, T-shirts… All the garments will be available for a limited time through crowfunding and the funds raised will be used for artistic interventions in sports spaces.
The bomber of the collection.
Some of the garments from the collection.
Some of the works exhibited in the installation at Heron Arts, San Francisco.
Art to spread the values of sport
The first of these interventions can already be seen at the headquarters of Movistar Estudiantes, the Antonio Magariños Sports Centre. In it, a colourful mural designed by Okuda San Miguel completely occupies one of the walls of the space. With it, the artist wants to spread a message of diversity and for this he uses the “multi-flag“, a concept used in other of his works around the world and with which he puts forward the idea that, although we are all different individually, collectively we are the same and the sum of all our colours represents all the teams equally and unites all the flags.
The first art installation of the Feel the Colors project is the work of Okuda.
A review of Okuda San Miguel’s latest works.
His pop surrealism travels the world every year through a multitude of multidisciplinary projects and exhibitions. In a review of his most outstanding works of 2019, we start with the large mural that dressed the reopening of the Desigual shop in Herald Square, New York. A world of textures, Hindu and Arabic typography, bright colours, geometric prints and animal figures in a tribute to the multiculturalism, diversity and street art that bathe the city.
Mural at the Desigual store on Herald Street, New York.
During August 2019, Okuda was one of more than 60 international artists who took part in the Urban Morphogenesis festival in Musku, just 19 kilometres from Red Square. A mural, this time 22 storeys high, filled the nuclear white of a residential building with colour, geometry and the artist’s particular vision of urban art.
Flgs of Freedom Project, Moscow
Metamorphosis was the artist’s first exhibition in San Francisco. The independent gallery Heron Arts was the backdrop for a selection of his own works and collaborations. Featuring artists such as Nychos, Mario Martinez (Mars1), AJ Fosik, Sergio Garcia, Seth, Sopopomo, Christybomb and Bordalo II. A collection that aimed to revive the old collaborative spirit of graffiti and surprise visitors with unpublished works.
Okuda San Miguel exhibition at Heron Arts, San Francisco.
Algunas de las obras expuestas en la instalación en Heron Arts, San Francisco.
Fashion, art and sport come together in “Feel the Colors” to inspire respect for diversity.
Images courtesy of Feel the Colors and Okuda San Miguel.
