With an enviable list of spectacular sculptures and numerous monuments of public art, the sculptor, painter, engraver, designer and educator Paul Rubio, again breaking all its aesthetic patterns, installing her latest book "North Star", in the same center of Bayamon, becoming the most monument public over the world, taking you even further to 118 feet, the modern sculpture "Marsyas" by Anish Kapooor in London, according to the Guinness Book of 2004, is the longest in steel and stainless steel worldwide.

“‘Estrella del Norte’ (North Star) is 610 'long and 60' high at its highest, while that of Kapoor only measured 492 feet long. Its design and concept are based on the lodestar, which for me is the beginning of the dream of many: time, space and light. "

The movement graph of the lines of the play takes us three interlocking modules.

The first shows where the birth of a star, coated stainless steel plates that are starting to disintegrate at a time. This leads us to the second module where the naked structural form one of the most difficult to produce movements, for their great lateral curve shifted to the air 234 feet long. The third module that is an arc of 60 feet high across the street, lined by stainless steel starts and then begins to disintegrate.

This work simulates the explosion of a star in charting its movement upward and downward, "says Rubio, whom he took to assemble this work during the past four years.

With works of art installed in Switzerland, Ecuador, Korea, Guadeloupe, Venezuela and Puerto Rico, among other countries, and over 130 group exhibitions and representing the island in biennials, exhibitions and symposiums leading international sculpture, Rubio responded in 2003 with this design to a call launched by the mayor of Bayamon to Park Road # 5 in this city, making the contract of participation.

The architect Rafael Palacios designed the park and the construction of the planes of the play, and was responsible for the structural design of such a complex project, Engineer Carlos Quiñonez.

"In that contest involving other sculptors of Puerto Rico, and I called to tell me that I won the prize, which was to make the sculpture. At no time thought I was going to be the largest sculpture in the world and neither knew that was the longest in London. I thought about making a sculpture that fills me and I am pleased.

It took us five years to make, with two years only for the production of plans, budget changes and purchase of materials. Fom everything I draw, then began fighting with the structural engineer as to whether one could do or not. Both Palacios as Quiñonez have worked with me for many years and I think some exceptional professionals. He also joined a group of confinement, some excellent workers, as part of a special project of Correction, "said Rubio.

The artist, however, said that at least this monument is one of the largest in America whose majesty and movement seeking to intervene in the quality of life of Puerto Rican and its ability to engage with the works of art. If during the day steel and stainless steel act as mirrors reflecting the movement and sunlight, its light at night offers amazing holograms by the interaction of the night lights.

The work in his area has hundreds of mobile lights that produce solar addition, the effect of an exploding nova.

"The play itself is the imprint left by the 'North Star' by passing through the Earth," the revolutionary artist.

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