Pachuca, Hidalgo · 2001–2005
David Ben Gurion Cultural Park
From 2001 until the end of his life, Byron worked on his largest canvas: a park in Pachuca, Hidalgo.
- Central Plaza
- 400 × 80 m
- of mosaic
- 32,000 m²
- of park
- 25 ha
Byron designed the master plan of the park together with Eva Beloglovsky: twenty-five hectares in the metropolitan zone of Pachuca, around which rose the Museum of Contemporary Art, a music conservatory, a convention center, a concert hall and a museum of science and technology, with gardens for sculpture, meditation and play.
Its trees were a gift of the Keren Kayemet L’Israel foundation on behalf of Mexico’s Jewish community.
The largest pedestrian mural in the world
The backbone of the park is its Central Plaza: a mosaic 400 meters long and 80 meters wide, designed by Byron and laid by hand, piece by piece. Its 32,000 square meters are best seen from the air — in the original design file, each pixel is roughly one square foot.
People walk across it every day. It is exactly what Byron wanted art to be: not something you visit, but something you live inside.
The site, before 
The model 
Laying the mosaic 
Piece by piece 
The plaza takes shape 
From the air 
From the air 
At ground level 
The finished park
Pachuca · 1999
Millennium
Inaugurated on December 31, 1999, this sculpture and fountain stands beside the highway as the gateway to Pachuca: nine meters of bronze on a three-meter mosaic base.
