Oma forest

Trees painted in the forest of Oma.

The Oma Forest (in Basque: Omako basoa) is an artistic work created by the sculptor and painter Agustín Ibarrola between the years 1982 and 1985 and that can be framed within the contemporary trend of Land Art. This forest is located in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve and consists of a group of trees on which graffiti has been made and which -in the set of various trunks and looking from certain positions- make up different geometric, human and animal figures.. The work is located on one of the slopes of the Oma valley, in the town of Kortezubi, near the Santimamiñe cave, not far from the artist's former home. The painter and sculptor Agustín Ibarrola conceived the animated forest or Oma forest as a sample of the relationship between nature and human presence.

The playwright Pedro Víllora set the action of his tragedy Electra en Oma in the forest of Oma.

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