Estación José Hernandez

Sin Límites, Rogelio Polesello, Ceramic mural, 2007

After seeing colorful cartoons and illustrative scenes, this piece without a doubt stood out. It stands right above the station sign making the already tall piece appear even taller. There are two pieces facing each other that clearly pair together. I attached a picture from online that shows the two as a whole.

The second thing I noticed about Sin Límites, or Without Limits, is that it appears to be made with tiles put together. Not sure as to why the artist chose tiles but it definitely adds a different texture to the piece. You can see in the picture I took from looking up, the tiles edges gleam from the light.

Looking at the piece as a whole, the pattern appears to twist and blend. The artist mostly uses shapes rather than color to create form, but occasionally uses color to separate space and I believe to help focus on the central point.

It is unique to see an op art piece in the Subway. Rogelio Polesello is a known Argentine Op Artist. He commonly uses colors and shape to warp space in order to create an illusion. He was born in Buenos Aires and studied at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Manuel Belgrano. His work is commonly based off the Gestalt theory, finding meaning and a new perception of an organized assemblage of shapes when looking at the image as a whole.

I think it is interesting that the artist did not choose to have the two parts side by side. Rather they are facing each other on opposite sides of the subway lanes. By bringing the two together, I think it would have made the artist’s gestalt application more affective. In addition, in the Subté, the mural reaches all the way to the ceiling making it a very long, extended piece. Assuming he had a choice of the placement, I think the piece would have appeared more complete composition-wise and size-wise with part one and part two side by side. Nonetheless, Sin Límites is a unique mural that is one of the many examples revealing Argentina's history and pride of important figures.