Puerta 1808 is an outdoor carbon steel sculpture by Manuel Felguérez installed in Mexico City, Mexico. It was inaugurated on 20 October 2007 by Marcelo Ebrard, the head of government, and was placed in the corner of Paseo de la Reforma and Avenida Juárez, in Cuauhtémoc. It is a 15 meters high sculpture that lies on a 2 meters high plinth.
The sculpture in 2007, with El Caballito in the background
Manuel Felguérez Barra was a Mexican abstract artist, part of the Generación de la Ruptura that broke with the muralist movement of Diego Rivera and others in the mid 20th century.
Felguérez in 2008
Sculpture Puerta del tiempo at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Sculpture in Cerro Nutibara in Medillín, Colombia.