Sculpture

As a student Byron was among the founders of the metal sculpture workshop at the Academy of San Carlos, and his first public works were sculptural murals. Though he devoted himself mainly to painting, he never left three dimensions — working above all in welded and hammered metal and bronze, and in stone, which he considered a luxury.

At Stonehenge, standing among the dolmens, he understood the sacred sense of sculpture — and wept. His figures are fragmented women who seem to float, hieratic, gaze fixed on the viewer: a modernity charged with the oldest antiquity, both Mesoamerican and European.