Euskaraz irakurri: Omako Baso berrituak 700 zuhaitz hartuko ditu, eta 2023ko irailean egongo da amaituta
The new Oma Painted Forest will have more than 700 trees in which will be reflected 33 pictorial sets originally designed for this work by the artist Agustín Ibarrola, including some that were lost due to logging more than two decades ago.
Under the supervision of José Ibarrola, the artist’s son, and with the encouragement of the Bizkaia Provincial Council, a multidisciplinary team of artists, restorers and architects led by Fernando Bazeta is “moving” the forest painted by Agustín Ibarrola in the 1980s into a new location within the Oma Valley, since the trees in which the original work was made are sick.
As explained today by the Biscayan deputy for Culture Lorea Bilbao, of the 500 paintings that Ibarrola made, there will be 700, in 33 pictorial groups, since all the work that the artist did in the original forest will be recovered, they will complete some figures that the artist designed but did not capture at the time and three groups lost due to a felling carried out in 1989 by the owners of the forest land at that time will be recovered.
There will therefore be fewer pictorial ensembles (before there were 47), but they will be larger, and all this work can be visited in a route of more than one kilometer.
Two phases
This summer the first 14 pictorial groups that make up the first phase will be painted, among them the first one made by Ibarrola (“The horizontal line”), some of the most iconic and popular of the Oma Forest (“Rainbows”, “Eyes”…) and others like “The caught lightning”, “Animals of the forest” or “Nuclear threat”.
The second phase of the project, when the remaining 19 sets will be painted, will take place between May and September 2023.
visits
Guided tours of the new Oma Forest will be organized from July 25 to September 11 – from Monday to Sunday – by appointment. The public will be able to see already painted sets and witness the process of creating new figures, for which they will have to reserve their turn on the telephone number 94 465 16 57.
Fernando Bazeta explained that in the new forest an orography similar to that of the original is sought so that the perspectives of the pictorial ensembles depicted by Ibarrola on the trees can be “identical” to the original ones, and that a painting “totally harmless” to trees.
Source: Eitb
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