Murals at VAC: Codex Two Thousand Twenty-Six
Art Building (ART) — Kayem Lobby, Art Building (outside of VAC's east entrance), Austin
Codex Two Thousand Twenty-Six is a collaborative mural painted and developed by Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing Carlos Rosales-Silva and his advanced painting students at the University of Texas at Austin. Each student was tasked with creating a pictographic symbol representing an urgent concept or question they are grappling with.
The references for these symbols span a wide range of historical and contemporary sources: Mexica Codices, European folk symbols, illuminated manuscripts, street signs, emojis, and memes. Together, the symbols are arranged in the format of a codex at mural scale — forming a contemporary pictorial collection and a snapshot of a generation of painters and their concerns.