![]() (Neither could be reached for comment, and López declined to discuss this.) Museo Jumex did face some upheaval last year in the wake of several departures, most notably that of artistic director Julieta González and adjunct director Rosario Nadal, after the directorship quietly changed hands. The foundation which has been folded into the museum gives awards to curators and artists for postgraduate studies abroad underwrites and lends art to major exhibitions and supports a variety of educational programs in Mexico and the United States. ∾ugenios museum confidently reestablished the capital as a center of the contemporary art world.īefore the museum, López ran Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, a nonprofit in Ecatepec that he established in 2001 with support from Grupo Jumex, founded by his father, Eugenio López Rodea. Jumex was as transformational to Mexico City as was the opening of the great anthropology museum in 1964, said Marc Porter, chairman of Christies Americas. With Museo Jumex, designed by David Chipperfield in the Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City, López joined the ranks of collectors who have started their own private museums. Every work on display there during the Zona Maco art fair in May was by an artist from or living in Mexico, Artnet noted. Many credit López, 53, with helping elevate Mexicos contemporary-art scene through the institution he founded in 2013, Museo Jumex. Los Angeles is not necessarily known as a city of art collectors, but nestled smack dab in Beverly Hills is one of the more active buyers in the market: Eugenio López Alonso, heir to the Grupo Jumex fruit-juice empire in Mexico, who has landed on an ArtNews list of the top 200 collectors in the world for at least five years running. Opposite the master bed are Cy Twomblys swirls. Over the fireplace is a Louise Bourgeois spider. To your left in the foyer are Damien Hirsts dots. ![]()
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