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Murals and artists

The artists who took part on the project are distinguished among the South American and national art world and they were part of the plastic arts boom of the 40s and the 50s. Their murals comprise a diversity of styles such as abstract art, kinetic art, impressionism and surrealism, and they can be identified both by their sequential numbering (from one to twenty) and their respective author.

Mural number 1, painted by Mario Carreño (1913-1999), is composed of geometric shapes (mostly blue cubes) and it can be found on the first set of stairs at Subida Pasteur.

Mural number 2 was painted by Gracia Barrios (1927), whose work can be found at Chilean and European museums, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and the Museum of Modern Arts André Malraux in Le Havre.

Murals number 3 and 4 belong to Eduardo Pérez Tobar, also known as Eduperto (1937).

Mural number 5 was painted by María Martner (1924).

Mural number 6, painted by Matilde Pérez (1920), rises above the upper stairs before reaching Guimera alley.

Mural number 7, painted by Eduardo Vilches (1932), known for practicing both carving and photography, and it’s located at the upper part of the Subida Pasteur on a wall between two buildings.

Mural number 8 belongs to Ricardo Yrarrázaval (1931), and it’s located on the upper part of the route at the corner where Subida Pasteur meets Pasaje Guimera.

Mural number 9 belongs to Rodolfo Opazo and it was painted on the sidewall of the Ascensor Espíritu Santo’s powerhouse.

Mural 10 was painting by Roberto Matta (1911-2002). It is followed by Mural 11 of Mario Toral (1934), located to the right of the lift, near the stairway that leads to the Guimera passage. The painter wrote in his mural: For the inhabitants of the waters and ... of the hills of this valley of paradise.

Ramón Vergara Grez (1923-2012) is the author of Mural 12, which gives directly to the lift Espíritu Santo before going down to the Guimera passage;

Francisco Méndez (1922) is the author of Mural 13 located in the downhill that makes the street Rudolph to Ferrari.

Roser Bru, who was born in Barcelona and arrived in Chile in 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War, is the author of Mural 14.

Sergio Montecino from Osorno painted Mural 15, at the end of Rudoplh and Ferrari street.

Mural 16, by Nemesio Antúnez, is on Rudolph Street and simulates the windows of an old house with human figures in there, without missing a couple sleeping in a bed, subject of several paintings, and naturally the kites.

José Balmes (1927), another Catalan which arrived in Chile in 1939, painted the Mural 17, in Rudolph and Ferrari Street.

Mural 18, by Guillermo Núñez (1930) and is on the Subida Ferrari and Rudoplh street.

Mural 19, by Augusto Barcia, is located on the Subida Ferrari before reaching the downtown and Aldunate Street.

Mural 20 is a collective work painted by the students of the Institute of Art and survived from 1969-1973.

Among the works of the official exhibition of the Open Sky Museum, some murals were made by the neighbors themselves and some works were painted with spray (graffiti).