In the heart of the Oaxacan capital, where art dialogues with history and architecture breathes tradition, Pug Seal Oaxaca stands as a contemporary manifesto of Mexican color and sensibility. Conceived as an aesthetic experience rather than simple lodging, this space finds its visual soul in the work of Rafael Uriegas: a universe of organic forms, earthy tones, and symbols that evoke the ancestral.
Uriegas, an architect and painter trained at the Universidad Iberoamericana and with studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, has developed a body of work that transcends mural painting to become a spatial language. At Pug Seal, his murals are not decorative; they are stories that inhabit the walls. The human figures, abstract mountains, and floating bodies that cover the corridors and rooms transform the guest’s journey into a sensory and introspective experience.
Each stroke of the artist’s brush seems to dialogue with the atmosphere of Oaxaca. The clay tones, transparencies, and blue hues recall the natural pigments of the region and the whitewashed walls of its villages. His aesthetic, both mystical and contemporary, achieves a connection between the spiritual and the everyday, between pre-Hispanic Mexico and the urban present.
Recognized for projects such as “El reino de
este mundo” (The Kingdom of This World) and
for his collaborations with galleries such as AGO
Projects and Proyectos Monclova, Uriegas has
established himself as one of the most poetic
voices in contemporary Mexican painting. At
Pug Seal Oaxaca, his art not only decorates,
inhabits, and breathes, but also becomes an
emotional extension of the architecture.
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