künstler/in: José Chávez Moradotitel: La conquista de la energíajahr: 1952–53adresse: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM, Unidad de Posgrados, Auditorio Alfonso Caso (antigua Facultad de Ciencias), Ciudad universitaria, Coyoacán, México D.F.

kommentar:

• The debates of plastic integration, modern architecture, and the development of new city forms come to the forefront in two major universities: the UNAM in Mexico City and the Universidad central in Caracas, Venezuela. The first exemplifies figurative, legible, and socially conscious art; the second, abstraction.», in: Carranza / Lara, 2014, p. 165–166 (dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch)

  «[…] Science serves as the geographic center of the university and, more specifically, it is the area where the Institute for Nuclear Physics (and the first Van der Graaf nuclear fission machine to be installed in Latin America) would be located. The Conquest of Fire mural by José Chávez Morado on the façade of the small auditorium building in fromt of the Sciences tower represents the paradoxical condition of atomic energy following the Second World War. […]»