MURALS
ACROPOLIS MURAL 1968
The Acrópolis Mural, designed by Luis Díaz for the pharmaceutical company Upjohn in Guatemala, is located in a covered passageway between the offices and the production plant. Created in concrete, it is a monumental high and low relief measuring 3 x 15 meters and 15 centimeters in depth, with an additional relief incorporated to accentuate certain areas. The work emerges from the concept of a Maya acropolis imagined in the midst of the jungle.
GUKUMATZ MURAL 1968
The Gukumatz Mural, created by Luis Díaz for Abbott Laboratories in Guatemala, is a 45-square-meter concrete work that integrates design, geometry, and architecture. The artist designed a mold to create a traditional die-shaped module. Using this mold, 290 concrete pieces were produced and installed in rows with variations in their orientation. The arrangement of these modules creates a permeable wall that allows controlled light to enter, producing effects similar to small lanterns.
GENESIS MURAL 1968
The Genesis Mural, derived from Luis Díaz’s Tierra Habitantes series, is composed of two paintings that are joined through puzzle-like forms, incorporating independent elements that complete the composition. Created on sectioned plywood and painted with industrial enamels in various colors, the work explores the relationship between fragmentation, assembly, and transformation, creating a dynamic surface where individual pieces come together to form a unified visual experience.
BIRD OF PARADISE MURAL 1974
The Ave del Paraíso Mural, created by Luis Díaz for the central lobby of the El Triángulo Building in Guatemala, extended across three interior levels of the building, evoking the open tail of a bird. The work was composed of natural wool carpet forms attached to the wall, creating a warm and textured surface. Over the years, interaction with the public caused damage to parts of the piece, and the mural was eventually removed.
CRACK MURAL 1975
The Grieta Mural, designed by Luis Díaz for a private residence in Guatemala City, was located in the transitional space between the dining room and the living room. Made of concrete with mirror details, the work represented a stylized geological crack. The house and the mural were demolished several years later.
PLAZA DEL SOL MURAL 1975
The Guipil Mural, designed by Luis Díaz for the Plaza del Sol Building in Guatemala, is an artistic intervention integrated into the architecture. As the project’s art consultant, the artist created a 1,200-square-meter work extending across the five levels of the building’s central lobby. Composed of geometric applications of mirror and red formica on a black wall, the piece evokes traditional Guatemalan textiles through a contemporary language of color, light, and reflections.
THE ELEMENTS MURAL 1977
The mural for the Lo de Coy Plant in Mixco, designed by Luis Díaz, is a painted concrete work that integrates architecture and landscape through an abstract visual language. Its composition of geometric forms evokes mountains, lakes, rivers, and sky, transforming natural references into a sequence of planes and colors.
CHAMBER OF CONSTRUCTION MURAL 1980
The Mural for the Chamber of Construction of Guatemala, designed by Luis Díaz, consists of geometric bands in different colors incorporating mirror details that create an interplay of light and reflections at the entrance to the auditorium. The work establishes a dialogue between abstraction and Guatemalan tradition: its color palette recalls indigenous textiles and the ornate costumes of the traditional Baile de Moros, integrating cultural identity with a contemporary visual language.
THE FAMILY MURAL 1987
The La Familia Mural, built at Casa Gutiérrez in Guatemala, is a high-relief concrete structure conceived as a monumental stele cast in situ in the residence’s entrance lobby. Its surface is marked and polished, highlighting the precision of its geometric design. The composition symbolically represents a family beneath a starry sky, integrating architecture, texture, and abstraction into a work of intimate yet monumental character.
LACAPE BUILDING MURAL 2005
The Libre al Viento Mural, created for the Torre Nova Building in Guatemala, is composed of prefabricated modular pieces installed on the building’s façade and side elevations. The work was conceived with a color composition of blue, white, green, and red, evoking the colors of the national flag and the flight of the quetzal. The building authorities did not allow the completion of the color application, leaving the mural unfinished.
OTHER WORK
