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Okuda San Miguel "The Plastic Island" Mirus Gallery Denver, by Mirus Gallery on Nov 22, 2018 1:14:36 GMT 1,










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November 24, 2018 - January 5, 2019

Mirus Gallery Denver is pleased to present the solo exhibition of Okuda San Miguel. The exhibition opens Saturday November 24th, 7-10pm and runs through end of 2018. VIP and Press is open Saturday November 24th, 6-7pm. Exhibition is free and open to the public.

About the Exhibition:

"The Plastic Island" by Okuda San Miguel

Welcome to this incomparable place, it is a pleasure to receive you in the wonderful Plastic Island. We have been told that plastic is necessary for our daily life... what we have not been told is that plastic will kill us.

Once it has reached our lives and begun to be received with open arms we fear it will not be easy for us to get rid of plastics. As useful as they are toxic in the long term, they have become omnipresent and it seems impossible to imagine life without them. We find them at home, on the street, and increasingly in our seas and rivers.

As if it were not already with us and its consequences were not affecting us, the plastic islands in our oceans grow at the expense of our waste. They are becoming a threat to the ecosystem, causing risks to our health and leading to economic and moral ruin.

Starting from this prerogative, Okuda San Miguel proposes to visit through his new exhibition a dystopia with which, unfortunately we seem increasingly comfortable.

Can you imagine spending your holidays in an authentic dump on the sea? What may seem the fantasy of a twisted mind, in the not too distant future may be a reality: "The plastic island" as a tourist destination. Throw the towel over the plastic glomerate and ask for a microplastic daiquiri, in these new works we will see each other not so far from now…

In "The plastic island", Okuda has relocated the characters with whom he has traditionally given life to his creations. Far from the context in which they use to live, now they become part of a landscape of plastics on which the only thing that stands out is a few meager palm trees. And to which a new species has been added, a hybrid of human and plastic, fruit of our passion for PVC.

pirates of the caribbean 3 calypso

November 24, 2018 - January 5, 2019

Mirus Gallery Denver is pleased to present the solo exhibition of Okuda San Miguel. The exhibition opens Saturday November 24th, 7-10pm and runs through end of 2018. VIP and Press is open Saturday November 24th, 6-7pm. Exhibition is free and open to the public.

About the Exhibition:

"The Plastic Island" by Okuda San Miguel

Welcome to this incomparable place, it is a pleasure to receive you in the wonderful Plastic Island. We have been told that plastic is necessary for our daily life... what we have not been told is that plastic will kill us.

Once it has reached our lives and begun to be received with open arms we fear it will not be easy for us to get rid of plastics. As useful as they are toxic in the long term, they have become omnipresent and it seems impossible to imagine life without them. We find them at home, on the street, and increasingly in our seas and rivers.

As if it were not already with us and its consequences were not affecting us, the plastic islands in our oceans grow at the expense of our waste. They are becoming a threat to the ecosystem, causing risks to our health and leading to economic and moral ruin.

Starting from this prerogative, Okuda San Miguel proposes to visit through his new exhibition a dystopia with which, unfortunately we seem increasingly comfortable.

Can you imagine spending your holidays in an authentic dump on the sea? What may seem the fantasy of a twisted mind, in the not too distant future may be a reality: "The plastic island" as a tourist destination. Throw the towel over the plastic glomerate and ask for a microplastic daiquiri, in these new works we will see each other not so far from now…

In "The plastic island", Okuda has relocated the characters with whom he has traditionally given life to his creations. Far from the context in which they use to live, now they become part of a landscape of plastics on which the only thing that stands out is a few meager palm trees. And to which a new species has been added, a hybrid of human and plastic, fruit of our passion for PVC.