Many artists around the globe have begun shifting towards art that draws everyone’s attention to the ever-rising issue of climate change. Not too long ago, Bored Panda covered a story about an artist who made realistic papier mâché masks highlighting the displacement that animals experience. There is also a list of some of the most powerful pieces of art that tell the uncomfortable truth about climate change.
Among these examples, we have yet another artist, 23-year-old Oscar Olivares from Venezuela, who has been making headlines recently with his gigantic mural made from bottle caps.
Artist Oscar Olivares collaborated with OkoSpiri and others to create an impressive mural in Venezuela
Image credits: Oscar Olivares
Oscar Olivares, in collaboration with the local environmental organization OkoSpiri and Movimiento en la Arquitectura para el Futuro (eng. Movement in Architecture for the Future), has created a gigantic mural using recycled plastic bottle caps and container lids.
It took 2.5 months to plaster over 200,000 various plastic caps on a wall of a small square, Plaza Escalona in El Hatillo Municipality, Caracas. The mural extends a total of 45 meters in length, measuring 3.5 meters at its shortest point and 7.25 meters at its highest point.
Image credits: OkoSpiri
The mural consists of 200,000 recycled plastic caps to make an extensive 45-meter illustration
Image credits: Oscar Olivares
Over the span of nearly three months, the team went through a number of steps in making the mural a reality: they applied a coat of white paint (donated by Pinturas Pineco CA and Okospiri AC), placed a grid for the design, collected the plastic covers (with the help of Multirecicla CA) and cleaned them, prepared the mixture, placed the caps, and added the finishing touches (smoothing, etc).
The end result is a marvelously colorful composition of macaws in their natural habitat. Besides the majestic birds, the mural includes sunflowers, mountains from the El Ávila National Park, and a couple of buildings sinking in the green meadows under a starlit sky, as well as some other small elements.
Image credits: OkoSpiri
The impressive mural aims to raise awareness of the ecological issues present in Caracas and beyond
Image credits: Oscar Olivares
The plastic cap mural is reportedly one of the largest ecological murals in South America and the first of its kind in Venezuela. The idea behind the work of art is to raise awareness among the residents of Caracas and beyond about the ecological problems that the country faces.
Besides this, the mural also aims to revitalize this specific area of El Hatillo which has until now been abandoned and has become somewhat of a landfill. This, in turn, brings a breath of fresh air to the communities living in the area.
Image credits: OkoSpiri
The mural took 2.5 months to make and can be seen in Plaza Escalona in El Hatillo Municipality, Caracas
Image credits: OkoSpiri
In one of his Instagram posts, Oscar shared some of his thoughts on what art is and should be: “A happy artist is one who, when he matures, continues painting as he did when he was a child using the painting of his soul and heart. Art is the union of a masterful technique with a pure feeling…” (translated from Spanish).
You can check out more of Oscar’s art on his website, as well as on his social media: Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Image credits: Oscar Olivares
While you’re here, check out some other illustrations made by Oscar Olivares
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