Okuda´s amazing churches!

“Sancho, we have come up against the Church”, this quotation from Don Quixote from the Mancha by Cervantes came up to my mind after seeing latest two amazing interventions in two abandoned churches by one of most important Spanish Street Artists, Okuda San Miguel.

The called Kaos Temple is an old church situated in “Llanera” Asturias reconverted by the collective Church Brigade in a skate park, a place of pilgrimage for the skate lovers.
Artist Okuda San Miguel filled with colours its walls, vaults and glasswork to complete this reinterpretation of the church like a place of gathering artistic and cultural reference in this century. Some called it the Sistine Chapel of Street Art.
 

His iconic artistic piece Chaos Star represents a colourful and isometric rose of the winds that tries to tell us that it does not matter where you are, or what you are doing, what matters are your own goals.
No wonder that Chaos Temple is one of the most important milestones in Okuda´s artistic career. It´s a creative expression that is already part of the artistic scene in Asturias.

After Kaos Temple, Okuda has completed a new project in Youssoufia, Morocco. On the façade of an abandoned church, the artist has painted ’11 mirages to the freedom’, a fresco which wraps the building’s exterior on all sides.

Okuda has kept his aesthetic style and painted abstract figures using a palette of bright colours. Geometric figures form animals, birds, and headless humans, placed on a backdrop of bright yellow, red, green and blue.

Visitors and passersby can see the once neglected building as a living canvas that changes throughout the day as light passes across it.

This project has been realized as part of the British council‘s street art caravan initiative taking place throughout Morocco.
More amazing photos in www.laiglesiaskate.com , www.churchbrigade.org & Ink and Movement