Okuda San Miguel seems to be out on a mission: transforming the world around him into a rainbow-colored experience. His distinctive style of geometric harmonies emboldened with intense colors means his installations, sculptures, and paintings really (really!) pop.
But much like his colorfully messy creations, his artwork is hard to categorize or pinpoint exactly. “My work is more related to surrealism and pop-art, which I discovered in school, than to street art or what is known as contemporary art,” he explained in an interview with Design Boom.
Sometimes described as Pop Surrealism meets Street Art, his work, incorporating colorful geometric patterns, portraying anything from animals and human figures to skulls and religious iconography. With his art raging in scale and size, his work also includes massive murals as well as whole buildings transformed into colorful installations. “I love to work on a large scale because it’s more breathtaking and I prefer to select this size of the project,” explained San Miguel.
Incredibly enough, these murals don’t rely on sketches. “I love to draw directly on the walls and keep creating and improvising during the process,” says San Miguel. “I need to see in person the whole architecture and try to play with that.”
