Espacio Escultórico UNAM

· Museum/gallery · Ciudad Universitaria

THE TAKE

Land art on a petrified lava bed, where six of Mexico's great geometric sculptors ringed a sea of volcanic rock with concrete prisms and dared the city to slow down.

WHY IT’S WORTH IT

1A 1979 landmark of Mexican land art conceived by Federico Silva and built by six titans of geometric abstraction, Helen Escobedo, Hersua, Manuel Felguerez, Mathias Goeritz and Sebastian.

2A 120-meter ring of concrete prisms set around the petrified lava of the Xitle volcano, art and ecology fused inside the UNAM reserve.

3A walkable patrimony piece that turned public sculpture in Mexico away from monument-making and toward landscape and concept.

BUSINESS INFO

Monday8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Tuesday8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Wednesday8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Thursday8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Friday8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

SaturdayClosed

SundayClosed

University Theater Center (CUT), Mario de La Cueva, Universitaria, Coyoacán, 04510 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico

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