Stephan Breuer
SUPERSTAR I, 2026
Gold PVD on ultra‑light substrate (nanometric gold deposit applied by vaporization). Laser‑engraved and geolocated satellite GPS coordinates of the crater of Volcán Acatenango, Guatemala.
130 cm
130 cm
SUPERSTAR I is the first physical manifestation of a 52-meter, eight-branched star conceived for the crater of Volcán Acatenango in the Guatemalan highlands. At 3,976 meters altitude, it will be the highest contemporary sculpture on Earth.
Its geometry encodes Maya astronomical knowledge: the 52-year Calendar Round and the synodic cycles of Jupiter recorded in pre-Columbian observation.
Yet the form exceeds any single culture.
The eight-rayed structure echoes the Chinese character mi (米), a foundational figure in calligraphy, containing all directional strokes radiating from a single center. The number eight signifies expansion and fortune; gold is not simply material but cosmological, one of the five elements, the color of heaven.
These correspondences are not designed.
They are discovered.
Rendered in gold PVD at nanometric thickness, the work does not represent light. It operates as light. Its mirrored surface transforms the viewer, the space, and the atmosphere into active components of the image.
Placed directly on the ground, it rejects the logic of the pedestal.
Celestial geometry is brought into the space of encounter.
Each of its eight branches is laser-engraved with five GPS coordinates, certified by CONAP (document DAGeos-52-2026), marking the exact site of its monumental counterpart.
The object contains its own destination.
Artist Statement:
The first question I asked myself as an artist was simple:
how far can I go with only a phone and a computer?
That question has taken me to the Giza Pyramids, to the Louvre during its complete closure, to the Palais Royal, and to a volcanic crater at 3,976 meters in Guatemala. Each project was conceived, coordinated, and completed without a studio, without the artist’s hand ever touching the material. A phone and a computer were the only constants.
This is what I call Mind Made.
Digital technologies are not tools to produce images. They are the architecture through which the mind generates reality.
When I coordinate a 52-meter golden star across continents, working simultaneously with engineers, environmental authorities, indigenous communities, and institutions, the digital space is not a support. It is the site where the work first exists, fully formed, before the physical world aligns with it. My medium is consciousness, structured through digital architecture.
Matter is not my medium. Matter is what yields.
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