Murals at VAC: Codex Two Thousand Twenty-Six

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. Students have been tasked with creating a pictographic symbol that represents an urgent concept or question they are contending with. The references for historical and contemporary pictographic symbols and collections are wide ranging: Mexica Codices, European folk symbols, illuminated manuscripts, street signs, emojis, and memes, to name a few. The place setting for these symbols is a representation of a codex at mural scale, a contemporary pictorial collection, and a snapshot of a generation of painters and their concerns at the University of Texas at Austin.