Conductores de Venezuela

[1][3] Villanueva died in 1975,[4] before Pedro León Zapata began work on Conductores de Venezuela.Zapata was a cartoonist, working for newspaper El Nacional for 50 years, and had also been trained as a painter and muralist.[7] The mural is made of 45,000 stoneware tiles, each 20 x 20 cm, cooked at the Pienme plant by ceramist Ricardo Ceruzzi, using single-firing furnaces.It is sometimes called Conductores del país and is described as an "open-air gallery" that gives residents of Caracas a "sense of belonging".[11] Dr. Silvio Llanos de la Hoz commented on the mural, writing that it does not reflect the Synthesis of the Arts in the way the rest of the campus artworks do, and that its message did not have a Kandinsky influence but was more concerned with Venezuela's social present at the time.
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Part of the design includes a list of 'credits' for the work.
Covered GymnasiumPedro León ZapataCoordinatesCentral University of VenezuelaFrancisco Fajardo freewayCarlos Raúl VillanuevaUniversity City of CaracasmodernismEl NacionalDiego RiveraAntonio Ledezmastonewaresingle-firingSimón BolívarSimón RodríguezTeresa de la ParraArmando ReverónJosé María VargasCaracasKandinskyAula MagnaCentral LibraryCaracas Botanical GardenRectory PlazaTierra de nadieBy Mateo ManaureBy Francisco NarváezBerger des NuagesClock TowerFloating CloudsL'AmphionMaría LionzaRáfaga de nieveOlympic StadiumUniversity Stadium