Abstract
The public art and artistic expression in a public urban space and generally raises an address to thebystanders, who pass by, inserting the dynamics and tensions of society. The public art at the University of Costa Rica is no exception. The Social Action Project, Cultural Extension, Plates public art works at the University of Costa Rica, looking with placing information signs in the works of permanent public art, unification in the style of forms, cataloging and conservation of important works of art; but mainly, offering the viewer another avenue of linguistic communication between the viewer and the work itself, or between the authors of the works and the Costa Rican public, both citizens of the world and the country, to whom these works belong, as a legacy and heritage culture.
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