The lighthouse of Ajo, iconic work of the artist Okuda San Miguel, protagonist of an ONCE coupon
The multicolored Cantabrian lighthouse, owned by the Port Authority of Santander, stars in the coupon for Saturday, September 17.
Santander, September 8, 2022. The multicolored lighthouse of Ajo stars in the ONCE coupon for Saturday, September 17. Five and a half million coupons will show this emblematic lighthouse located in the Cantabrian municipality of Bareyo and support of an iconic work of Santander artist Okuda San Miguel.
The coupon has been presented this morning in the vicinity of the lighthouse of Ajo, in a ceremony in which they have intervened the technical director of the ONCE in Cantabria, Sergio Cano; director of Colouring the World Foundation, Claudia Reigosa; the mayor of Bareyo, Angela Ruiz, and the president of the port authority, Francisco Martin.
Infinite Cantabria' is the name with which the artist titled his work on the lighthouse of Ajo. It is the first lighthouse artistically intervened throughout the Spanish coast, respecting its original function of aid to navigation as a maritime signal and becoming a national tourist attraction. A unique work that was possible thanks to the joint work of the Port Authority of Santander and the City Council of Bareyo.
For the past two years, the lighthouse has become a symbol of good omens that illuminates us through color, the hallmark of the artist and the foundation that he leads, Colouring the World Foundation.
This foundation has initiated a collaboration with the ONCE Foundation for the promotion of diversity and the improvement of the quality of life of people at risk of exclusion. This collaboration between foundations will have its first milestone with the issue of a coupon dedicated to the TITANES project, a Coloring the World Foundation program that promotes the participation of people with disabilities, especially young people, in the creation of works of public art, with the aim of strengthening their expressiveness, their relational environment and their self-esteem.
Weekend Sueldazo
ONCE's Sueldazo del Fin de Semana offers, every Saturday and Sunday, a main prize of 300,000 euros for the five digits and series, plus 5,000 euros per month for 20 consecutive years for a single coupon. And prizes of 2,000 euros per month for 10 consecutive years, to four other coupons.
ONCE coupons are sold by more than 19,000 ONCE salesmen and saleswomen. In addition, they can be purchased from https://www.juegosonce.es/, and in authorized collaborating establishments.
About Okuda San Miguel
A graduate in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, his unique iconographic language of geometric structures and multicolored patterns on streets, railroad tracks and abandoned factories around the world have made him one of the world's most recognized urban artists. Pretended for his large-scale projects, Okuda San Miguel is perhaps best known for his late 2015 conversion of an abandoned Asturian church; a Kaos Temple, as it came to be called, which has become a new icon of contemporary art.
In his work, multicolored geometric architectures mingle with organic forms, bodies without identity, headless animals and symbols that encourage reflection through artistic pieces that could be classified as Pop Surrealism, but with a clear essence of the streets. His works often raise questions about existentialism, the universe, infinity, the meaning of life and the contradictions of the false freedom of capitalism, showing a conflict between modernity and our roots. Ultimately, between man and himself.
About Coloring the World Foundation
Coloring the World Foundation is a non-profit organization created by Okuda San Miguel and Ink and Movement, which contributes to the promotion of diversity and the improvement of the quality of life of people and communities in situations of vulnerability and risk of exclusion using art and color as an instrument of transformation and change.
The fundamental mission of Coloring the World Foundation is the promotion of diversity and optimism through art. Color is the engine of change and transformation in each of its activities.