Chariot in the sky
Sol Guillon
2016
“Carro en el Cielo” is a temporary mural that is in Plaza Zócalo. The MOP chose it through a public competition along with other murals that are part of the building's temporary collection, pieces that materialized during 2016.
Sol Guillon used a technique called loom-treillage, composed of pieces of wood of different sizes. Plaza Zócalo is intervened by this play of tones and reliefs in two sections of 19 and 17 meters long by 2.50 meters high.
Guillon's work is characterized by being built with a high component of kinetic art. His proposal is an allusion to the visual representation of Gabriela Mistral's sound and poem “Carro del cielo”. The artist divided the poem into two, relating different verses with cold and warm colors, creating a quartet of colors and a triplet of reliefs on a gray base.
“I have always found that poetry and music have things in common, because of the rhythms, the stanzas, the sensations it produces in you. And I feel that all the arts are combined, so it was to unite the three things. There I put everything in a cauldron: poetry, music, visual arts; I stirred it and this came out.”
— Sol Guillon.
The construction of the mural was carried out through a computer model and then adapted to the available space. Furthermore, Guillon realized that the UNCTAD III building was in permanent dialogue with his work, due to the effects of the lighting and the atmosphere of the young people who gather to dance around it.
“When you are working there you discover things, like the sun when it passes through these little holes and makes the mural vibrate, in addition to the effects of color, reliefs and position. Something also happens with the shadow above, plus each stick projects its own shadow. Then the mural dances alongside the young people who are in the GAM.”
— Sol Guillon.
