Sculpture artist Sebastián to design new science museum in Monterrey

The Mexican sculptor known arsenic Sebastián, celebrated for his elephantine yellowish equine sculpture “El Caballito” connected Mexico City’s Reforma Avenue, has been chosen to plan the caller Quántica subject depository successful Mexico’s bluish authorities of Nuevo León. 

Nuevo León archetypal announced its plans to unfastened a caller subject depository successful the municipality of Pesquería — adjacent to Monterrey — successful February 2024. The depository volition beryllium located adjacent to the Monterrey International Airport and is slated to unfastened up of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which volition diagnostic games successful Monterrey. 

“El Caballito” connected Mexico City’s Reforma Avenue is 1 of Sebastián’s astir celebrated works. (Wikimedia Commons)

Mayor of Pesquería Patricio Lozano said the museum, whose afloat sanction is the Centro de Ciencias y Conocimiento Quántica (Center for Science and Quantic Knowledge), seeks to marque subject and exertion much accessible with its interactive design, exhibits and workshops. The museum’s improvement follows the closure of the Alfa Planetarium successful Nuevo León successful 2020. 

“The contiguous indispensable constituent to the future, what we are moving connected is simply a much prosperous future, we request men and women who let paradigms to beryllium broken. From Pesquería to each of Mexico, we are going to make a must-see center: Quántica, a model to the future,” the quality tract Reporte Índigo reported Lozano saying. 

In 2024, Lozano said the museum’s improvement would necessitate a full concern of 213 cardinal pesos (US $10.5 million), with 50% of backing to travel from the backstage assemblage and 50% from the municipal budget. Construction is expected to statesman successful 2025 and volition beryllium completed successful little than 1 year.

Sebastián’s relation successful Quántica’s design

Mexican sculptor Enrique Carbajal González, calved successful Chihuahua successful 1947, adopted the pseudonym “Sebastián” aft the coating of the martyred Saint Sebastian by Sandro Botticelli.  

His alloy and factual sculptures adorn immoderate of Mexico’s top landmarks, including the malecón of Manzanillo, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) successful Mexico City and the Monument to Mexican National Identity successful Ciudad Juárez.

A rendering of the caller Quántica subject depository successful Monterrey designed by Sebastián. (Municipio de Pesquería)

Today, Sebastián’s enactment tin beryllium seen each implicit the world, from Ireland to Italy to Japan and beyond.

“I person a batch of fun. I americium a creator of works done which I analyse space: I instrumentality mathematical oregon carnal models and person them into sculptural models,” Sebastián told El Sol de México.  

The creator precocious exhibited his designs astatine the Zona Maco creation just successful Mexico City successful February, including tableware, vases, effect bowls and containers. His postulation was a collaboration with the century-old Mexican ceramic workplace Ánfora. 

Sebastián’s plan for the subject depository is based connected probe helium carried retired connected physics and quantum mechanics, for which helium sought proposal from scientists moving astatine the Hadron Collider successful Switzerland. 

“The depository was designed to person quantic proportions, which you volition soon beryllium capable to spot finished,” said the sculptor. 

With reports from El Sol de México, Identidad NL and Reporte Indigo