Aimed at offering Valencians more spaces and to elevate art in the city, the mayor of Valencia, Miguel Cocchiola, and the Colombian ambassador to Venezuela, Ricardo Lozano, recently inaugurated the work titled Horizonte Paisaje Agustiniano (Horizon Agustinian Landscape) by Colombian artist Edgar Negret. The installation of this sculpture not only embellishes Valencia, but also fulfills the dream of the town's former Mayor, the late Francisco "Paco" Cabrera, who acquired the work during his mayoral tenure. But Cabrera was not able to complete the project and for five years it remained stored in a shed in an abandoned and deteriorated state. The rights for this work and its construction were acquired during the government of the former mayor of Valencia, "Paco" Cabrera, and this is the reason that the boulevard that surrounds the piece was named after him. The largest work ever created by Edgar Negret, the sculpture consists of five gigantic columns that measure 18 meters (59 feet) long by 13 meters (42.65 feet) high and weigh 66 tons. The columns represent the mountains of the landscape observed by Negret during his retirement in San Agustín, Colombia. The mayor of Valencia, Miguel Cocchiola, affirmed that this work represents an effort by the municipality to recover spaces for the people of Valencia. It was installed on the corner of Carlos Sanda Avenue and Andrés Eloy Blanco in Valencia, capital of the Carabobo State. Colombian ambassador to Venezuela, Ricardo Lozano, said "You cannot imagine how honored this inauguration makes me, and all other Colombians living in Venezuela, feel. We deeply appreciate this tribute to Colombian art and culture, the two elements that, because of their constitutional disposition, are the basis for our national identity." Architect, doctor in arts and professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, María Novoa, described the installation of the piece as a cultural event of international proportions that became an artistic legacy of Venezuela, equal in importance to those other pieces by Negret installed in cities like New York, Paris, Barcelona and Bogotá, among many others where this artist is present through his work. Mayor Miguel Cocchiola said that "culture will always be important for the development of cities. It is essential to create identity and a sense of belonging. An example of this is the City of Medellín, in our sister republic of Colombia, where culture was the transversal axis with which to achieve a better quality of life for its citizens." Engineer Isandra Villegas, president of the Instituto de Vialidad of the city, said that "this piece of great artistic and cultural value is made of iron and painted with red vermillion. It is composed of 144 pieces made with reinforced concrete of which 4.5 m petals stand out. The work is supported by a reinforced concrete slab anchored to an 8 meter deep piling previously constructed and strengthened through a funding system designed to support the work's great weight."